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New crew aboard and reds onward ho.
We are off, again. Slowly. This morning after taking on some fresh water in the lock we have spent the last few days at, we were joined by a stink boat with the skipper on top looking like the old man of the sea. . Beard and all. But apparently he would be better sailing a square rigger as he was pretty lousy at driving the stink boat. That slowed us up a lot as we had to share the locks. So at each lock we waited for them to catch up, ...
Klaus lives. and he had better behave himself.
... Reims where craig gets off. Rae is bringing her Ukelaly so I will be trading Craigs didge for a Uke. I should really learn an instrument. I used to play the guitar but somehow lost the time to practice. I doubt I will make time now either so maybe the stereo will suffice.
The guys here from the canal authourity have been great. plugging us into power has saved us freezing our bums off and also allowed me to used the big light to ...
Stevie got an owee
... not too hard to work out. klaus came apart fairly easily. i Am short a few sockets which would have sped things up but its done. T he flywheel being a heavy piece of cast iron slid off surprisingly easily. Nobody was more surprised that me, especialy as i had my fingers under the 20kg when it slid. i have a small boo boo from that whch required a chemist visit. The VNF which is the mob that ...
Klaus broke in a big way.
... be stuck a day or two so better we are in a big town than in the middle of nowhere. Craig valiently grabbed the rope and set off at a cracking 1.7 knots. We figured it was 5 km to the next town. Turns out it was only the next lock which we roped red into. We passed a couple of boats and after i explained the situation they both slowed to almost a stop to pass us. So craig towed as he said he wanted some excersize. I spent the time trying to ...
Road Trip Part 5: Reims
... room later and we sadly came to the realization that our road trip had come to end.
Ky and Che, we had a great time with you guys. Thanks for being patient and putting up with us girls (which we're sure was very trying at some points). This one definitely goes down in our road trip record books!
Managing to keep the peace,
Leann and ...
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