This Rat Sailed

Tuesday morning I get up and check the local weather on the radio and local TV broadcasts.  It sounds like there is a good chance of rain an...

Well, the Dismal Swamp route has been closed for about a week now.  Announcements could be heard daily on the VHF radio that the "South...

Well, at the end of my last post I mentioned that we were waiting out a little bad weather.  It's not a lot of fun to sail in the rain w...

After our stop in St. Michaels, we started making our way down the Chesapeake. Our first stop was in Solomons MD.  This is the same place we...

Finally...yesterday, we finally left Baltimore.  It was starting to feel like we were stuck in the mud.   Baltimore harbor is typically mud ...

Naturally, if you are in the Washington D.C. area playing tourist, you need to spend some time on the National Mall.  Many of the nations ic...

In my time here, I haven't found much that Baltimore can brag about.  But one thing it does have is claim to the birthplace of our natio...

The reason we came to Baltimore was to get a bit of work done.  We didn't really intend to be playing tourist here and didn't know i...

Well, here is another post I didn't think I would be writing. After the decision to abandon ship (so to speak), we started trying to fig...

When we left on this trip, I decided not to bring along my laptop. All we have with us is a small Samsung tablet and our smartphones. Norma...