Village Inn Annapolis

... and asked where I was from, when I told him Massachusetts he was like "MASSACUSETTS?! THAT'S WHERE THE FIRE COMES FROM!!!!" It was DEFF a defining moment in my life.....Oh yah while all this was going on Jen and Sophie were getting galactic in the simulator...apparently it wasn't worth their money..We rendezvous -ed in the family bathroom... After we left the museum we thought it would be a great idea to go camp out and wait for the inauguration EXTRA early. So we went to a ...

... the fact it was surrounded by veterans at the time of our visit. We headed back to the metro station and found our way back. We hopped on our metro and headed back home. We certainly were late arrivals back for dinner but felt we had exhausted Washington (and ourselves) by this time. Again we caught up with Owen and Bev, to recap on their days outing and compare battle storeys of the day. Sleep was a much required commodity tonight.

I had big plans. Huge. I had half a burrito left over from lunch today (thank you Qdoba for providing such foil-wrapped over-priced tastiness right across the street from my office), and had been planning since, like, 3, to compose a series of haiku's about my burrito. However, I felt so sick after I ate the burrito that I was no longer inspired. Michelle

... of the bridges we have crossed) Annapolis is really nice full of little shops & pavement cafes, very much a place where you can walk around.Many old buildings We went on a jolly trolley tour around the city. I have forgotten most of what the guide said except Annapolis was named after Princess Anne. The streets are twisty & not like the gridded streets you find in most towns & city's here. All in all a very good place ...

... we're paying just as much (actually a bit more) than anywhere else we've stayed and they all had full amenities. Oh well. We'll just have to 'rough it'. (Yeah, right. We still have the rig. We're not sleeping in tents on top of rocks). One cool thing-we have a firepit. This will be the first campground where we can have a fire. That'll be nice. okay-more to come later! You know, when there's actually something to report.

Today was the day the new pump for our autopilot was to arrive. While I had no one committed to install, it at least having it in my grease stained hands would give me a feeling that we were moving ahead. I envisioned going over the marine electronics store and picking up the package...knowing this thing cost 5x the price I would have expected by at least knowing I had all I needed. In fact the boat repair expert we had at the Nordhavn ...

June 9 - Day 1 We got a late start - left at 10:25 - but we're doing well its 7:50 and we're almost in Bristol, VA which is on the Tennessee Virginia border - about another hour to go. When we finish the day we'll have gone 530 miles! 4 states in one day! (PA, MD, WV, VA) Pretty good huh? And that's with us passing a total of 4 cars and 1 truck (i.e. everything else passed us!) I never had such a driving complex! We only stopped once to get out of the ...

... answer the question "So, how was Norway?" that I've heard so much in the past few weeks? What will I take away from this experience, other than 10,000 pictures and a suitcase of souvenirs and presents? I don't know, and I don't think I will find the answers just yet. But I have learned this: home really is where the heart is. I'm just lucky because my heart has three places to call home: Washington, Virginia, and now Norway. Norway became my home for just four short months, but Norway ...

... to mix his words but he is fair. And a character beyond explanation. You either like him or hate him and he does not compare to your conventional Indian Yoga Guru types. The opposite. As staff bring him milk, massage his body and brush his poney tail he commands proceedings from the centre of the floor with his voice barkin out through his head piece. No wonder majority of us were terrified when our time came. And my time came Friday morning. As much as I can ...

... but the process is slower there than in other areas. The market and cruise ship dock has moved out of the harbor to St. George's Bay and new facilities have been built. The harbor docks now house the commercial trade. We hauled Free Spirit to do annual service to the saildrives and to raise the waterline a bit and repaint the bottom. Spice Island Marine was most helpful and its location could not be beat. I spent a lot of time on the bus between St. Georges and the ...