Dismal swamp

After months of faithful service, our laptop has given up. Yesterday I was about to post another thoughtful, entertaining, insightful bit of writing when the computer quit. Today we are at the Dismal Swamp Visitor Center where I thought the free WiFi might help with recovering the system, but alas. No dice.

So I’m hoping we can get the data and pictures off the computer when we are back in Maine. In the meantime, I’ll be posting from my iPad.

Briefly (because I’m still in mourning over the loss of my computer as well as my latest masterpiece), we had a great time in Oriental where we enjoyed a fun evening with Ken and Sharon from Charis. Met a wonderful sailor on a fascinating sailboat Prinses Mia. Check out the article about this neat boat and captain: https://towndock.net/shippingnews/prinses-mia.

We have been slowly making our way northward, enjoying the little anchorages and towns on the ICW in North Carolina. Last night we were in Elizabeth City at the same dock we tied to on our way south last fall. Ellen asked us, if we were suddenly transported back to September 2018 in Elizabeth City, what would we do differently over the course of the year in the Bahamas. We were all happy to realize that there is almost nothing we would change…we are pretty pleased with how the adventure has gone so far. (Well, we would have tried harder to avoid hurricane Florence, but even that event turned out fine for us.)

Ellen and Moss will likely have better photos on their instagram thing. Check out cupcakeafloat over there, the girls are greedy for more followers.

Heres an interesting thing I noticed yesterday: when I shave nowadays, I don’t worry that if I cut myself the blood will attract sharks when I go swimming later on…there’s no swimming likely for a while.