Kris flew back to Idaho and Oregon leaving on Saturday, an adventure to say the least, We mentioned that in our last post, but did not include how she got to the airport. Her Uber ride was a Tesla She convinced her driver to floor it to see how it accelerated, and was not disappointed as it pushed her back in her seat pretty good.
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| Kris's ride to airport |
Meanwhile back at the anchorage, Baltimore/Rock Creek Anchorage, Ed and Cathy on What If had shown up and kept Dean company and even fed him. Early Monday when the winds went to the north Dean sailed down to Annapolis area.
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| What If anchored at Rock Creek, also where Charm was anchored. |
Dean anchored in Harness Creek by Quiet Waters Park. We have anchored there several times and it very peaceful, just a long walk anywhere. On one of the walks came across 3 deer in the path, this one let me take its picture.
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| Deer in park. |
Kris finally got to Boise, and stayed with our son Derek in his apartment. Derek is not an early riser, so Kris took a walk, and picked up breakfast. One of our favorite doughnuts is a maple bar - which is a west coast only doughnut - have never found them on the east coast. Since Kris was out west, she had to get one.
Derek has a two bedroom apartment, but has a roommate, so Kris slept in the living room. Derek had made up a nice bed area, and even put a wall of storage bins up to give Kris some privacy.
The bed worked great, and Kris even got to spend time with Derek's cat Smokey, who was the family cat for 5 years before we left for the boat.
Boise is a nice town, and there are nice walking trails near Derek's apartment that Kris used each morning.
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| One of many walking trails and parks in Boise |
Kris left Boise on Wednesday, and caught the Greyhound bus over to Bend, Oregon to visit her parents.
It is a 6 hour bus ride, but there were only 4 ladies on the bus plus the driver. It was a large bus, so Kris travelled in comfort.
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| View from bus travelling across the high desert between Boise and Bend - not that normal ocean view when travelling we are used to |
Dean left on Thursday morning and sailed down to The Solomon's, roughly 35 miles with nice north winds
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| Nice start to Deans trip |
Dean spent the night and left early on Friday and sailed 51 miles south to Deltaville. The winds and waves were from behind, thanks to Hurricane Lee, so made good time.
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| Nice following seas in the Chesapeake |
Saturday was a short 20 mile trip to Mobjack bay/East River. There is a catamaran haul out marina so Dean walked and looked at a lot of big boats. Another Manta, Indie II is hauled out but the owners are not around. Dean will hang out at Mobjack until Tuesday and sail the 25 miles to Portsmouth and anchor at Hospital Point to pick up Kris on Thursday night when she flies back.
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| Dean wandered around Zimmerman's marina, which had lots of large cats on the hard |
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| Nice calm anchorage in Mobjack Bay near Matthews town |
Meanwhile, Kris has been visiting her folks, and trying to help out with a few projects around their property.
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| View from the back patio at Kris's folks. Not the normal view of water. High Desert in Bend |
Kris will head back to Boise today, to spend more time with Derek before flying back to Portsmouth.
Amazing and a bit odd that the Uber was a Tesla! And interesting that Kris took a Greyhound bus trip! That's sortof nostalgic, isn't it? Looks like fun, actually since it wasn't full with riff-raff like you imagine it (no factual data there, just the vibe I get when someone says "Greyhound Bus Trip") Funny that Dean was at Zimmerman's - Duane and I will be driving up there to meet cruising friends on Galileo next week - they're gifting us a bunch of 20' long battens that we'll use to make our new sailbag. Safe travels to you both!
ReplyDeleteInteresting stops on the Chesapeake, places we bypassed. Thanks for sharing the info and posts.
ReplyDeleteKriss, enjoy the special time with your family 😊