How much can you fit in a 10-foot U-Haul?
2 lives and a medium-sized dog.
When I was first told I would be sailing on a ship and not a boat, I asked what all fledgling mariners ask:
"What's the difference?"
The difference, as it turns out, is that ships carry boats.
Tug boat. Cruise ship. See?
If you're in the company of sailors, call a ship a ship.
Unless you want some salty looks...
Okay, so.
This house in which I sit is 100 years' old.
It overlooks Deer Lake which, I have learned, is a lake, and not just some town with a hospital in it.
Once, it was the town's post office and general store.
Right on the railway line, it was!
The train would stop, people would buy their newspapers and replacement iPod chargers, and then they would steam on.
In time, it became a place where you could rent paddle boards. Kyaks. Okay, how do you spell Kiyaks?
You see the word enough that you figure you know how to spell it.
Kayak. That's it.
Anyway, this place is still that place; you can still rent kayaks and paddle boards, but now we also live here.
My lady love and I have U-Hauled our way into this villa and are now nesting comfortably.
I am in the company of many, many bicycles.
I rode one yesterday in order to collect Mary Brown's.
I wore a light jacket while doing this even though it's June.
I am home.
Beer in gas stations!
The weather is nicer here, I think.
And the flora! The fauna!
We had a "june bug" fly into our bedroom area, and it was very frightening.
The creature looked and sounded like a moth covered in hard plastic.
Unsettling.
Andie stayed under the covers (which I heartily encouraged) while I nancied about and tried to make it leave.
It was immediately beside her on the pillow for a moment.
This is country livin'. Bumpkins deal with this sort of thing all the time.
Anyway, I can't wait until we hit July so that I won't have to see one of those fuckers for another year.
The ship, then.
Well, to keep my mind limber and my arrogance inflated, I kept a sailing account of my voyage.
I'm going to post all of these entries more-or-less simultaneously, to make it seem like the blog has a bunch of new content. Which I suppose it does.
Will.
I have much confusion over my orientation.
Not my sexual orientation; I just don't know which way I'm facing right now.
