Finally in Baltimore
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012 Leave a comment
A very welcome bed at 2:00 am.
Landed in DC
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012 Leave a commentFinally landed in Washington DC.
Still stuck in Houston
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012 Leave a commentWe are still trying to get out of here. We are half booked on a flight now boarding (Patty is standby) that takes us to Washington Reagan. I spent hours on the phone with Hertz and then Expedia trying to change the car reservation. Since it was booked with Expedia, Hertz would not change it. I literally spent two hours on the phone with Expedia, mostly on hold, and cancelled the Hertz reservation and had to make a new reservation to pick up the car in Washington and drop it off in Baltimore.
Stuck in Houston
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012 Leave a comment
Well here we are in Houston. Our flight to Baltimore was late and still at the gate, but they would not let the five us on the delayed flight on the Baltimore flight. We got booked on a flight that is four hours later.
We are looking at options, or at least a long dinner.
Missing Captain
Posted: August 11, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012 Leave a commentOur captain was AWOL so we are an hour late leaving SNA. We connect in Houston, so it may be tight. Less time in George H W Bush’s namesake, we hope. I would hate to get stuck there.
Off to Baltimore
Posted: August 10, 2012 Filed under: Baltimore 2012, Uncategorized Leave a comment
We are heading off to Baltimore to go to niece Katie’s open house at her new house in the Baltimore inner city. She is following her older sister Gretta’s lead in moving into the redevelopment inner city area of refurbished town homes. The area has been recently integrated (when they moved in), but it is a great project to revitalize a great old neighborhood.
Cam dropped us off at SNA and I figured out I had forgotten my wallet walking to security. Cam is now making a second round trip.
Busy Days
Posted: August 6, 2012 Filed under: Catalina Island, 2012 Leave a comment
We got Patty and Brett off of the ferry and made the trip back down the coast to our Cove. After some swimming, sunning and just hanging around the boat, we went ashore. Brett attempted to fill in the cove with rocks from the shore, but made little difference. Regardless of how many rocks the kids throw in the water, the winter storms just roll them back up on the beach.
Brett played on the swing, hiked up through the trees and climbed up into a treehouse with an ocean view. After a while, we all took showers in the open air shower and went back to the boat.
We had a dinner invitation from our friends Ike and Zuzana, so we packed into the dingy and took the half mile trip down the coast to Emerald Bay where they we’re anchored. We had appetizers on the aft deck and then retired to the salon for dinner. After 10:00 pm, we bundled sleeping Brett up, climbed down into the dingy and took a very dark trip back to our Cove. I was glad that I had kayaked that stretch many times and knew where the rocks were.
Sunday morning was cool and cloudy, but by noon when we pulled the anchors the sun was out and the wind was up. Fifteen minutes under way and we had the engine off and we were sailing a broad reach for home.
We got in by 4:30 pm. It was good that we only had to motor a short distance because a small coolant drip tuned into a big one and the engine started getting hot coming down the Alamitos Bay entry channel.
I poured enough water into the system to keep her running while we furled the sails and got into the slip. I will be glad when the autopilot is repaired. Hand steering across the channel makes for a long day.
On the hook
Posted: August 4, 2012 Filed under: Catalina Island, 2012 Leave a commentWe got in about 2:45 pm and got the anchors down without too much fuss. We pumped up the small dingy and gave Christian a quick tour of the shoreside facilities, as they are. I have figured out that without wifi, I cannot easily transfer pictures from the iPhone to the iPad. So I need to load the WordPress software on the iPhone as well so as to upload pictures.
We had steak, brown rice and broccoli for dinner, capped of with Mystic Mint Girl Scout cookies.
The moon rose; a squid fishing boat lit up the horizon (they shine bright lights down into the water to attract the squid) and we went to bed.
This morning Christian started the morning off with a 6:30 am swim. A little too early for me. Patty and Brett are coming in on the 9:00 am ferry so we have to put the engine on the big dingy to go get them.
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