We’re sitting tight, waiting out a gale.  I did sleep late and then spent the day creating blog posts and baking a loaf of bread (and making 3 meals, like I do every day).  Having this time to re-focus inward… Continue reading

Sleep – it’s the best. This morning, when it was time to haul up the anchor, Grace was surrounded by 1.5″-3″ long, pink, swimming, swirling, pincing, centipede-like worms – clam worms, we’ve learned, thanks to the SERC website.  I caught… Continue reading

It’s 7pm, the sweet potatoes are in the pressure cooker, and I’m so tired.  The sunrise viewed from our anchorage was like a watercolor. After breakfast, we headed down to St Clement’s Island.  Conditions were perfect – calm and very… Continue reading

We had to leave Mattawoman Creek before dawn again, to be clear of the restricted area by 7am.  Right at midnight, I’d been awakened by the loudest, most annoying, buzzing/outboard/motor sound.  A hovercraft?  Some sort of extra-volume military outboard?  A… Continue reading

I was up at 5am so that I could enjoy that precious contemplative hour of coffee drinking before it was time to make breakfast (eggs, toast, and kale).  By 7am, we were underway.  Mount Vernon was 13.1nm downriver and opened… Continue reading

This was our last day in the city, which meant provisioning, laundry, and sending off our mail-in ballots for the primary elections.  With that accomplished, mid-afternoon we scootered over to the Jefferson Memorial.  Here’s a photo of the bronze statue… Continue reading

To the Zoo!  Another ride on the Metro… and a pleasant walk.  Elephants, tigers, lions, gorillas, orangutans, and all the less reknown creatures, too – all available to view in thoughtful environments. The National Zookeepers seem to put alot of… Continue reading

I’d learned yesterday that my boots were done in, and I discovered this morning that my phone had followed suit.  It was a retired model when I got it (for free when AT&T upgraded their towers), the battery had been… Continue reading

The day’s adventure, after sleeping late, was touring the city of Alexandria’s historic district…in pouring rain and coastal flooding.  We donned foul weather gear and walked to the Waterfront Metro station, from which we rode the Green Line to to… Continue reading

The days flew by.  We decided to make an attempt on same-day tickets to go up inside the Washington Monument.  They come available at 8:45am, and the line begins to form at 7am or earlier.  We thought sure we’d have… Continue reading