Hanging out in New Providence

There are definitely good and bad things about hanging out in Nassau. There is an amazing grocery store and a Starbucks across from the marina where we are staying. Hugh laughs at me as I wander up and down the aisles in the grocery store … you don’t see a lot of the brands at home, or anywhere else in the Bahamas. Plus it’s lovely and cool in there, I could spend hours looking, and buying a few things. A great place to stock up before heading out to the desolate islands of the Exumas!  

The bad things about being here are the noise, crowds and frustration of trying to get around town to see the historical and other attractions of New Providence Island.  We are quite far from the “downtown” of Nassau, so getting there requires either an expensive taxi, or a local bus ride, which we have discovered, is an adventure.

Alyssa arrived on Monday, after numerous delays to her flight from Tampa to Nassau, just in time to enjoy a lovely meal at Latitudes, the new restaurant in the marina. When we were here last year they were in the process of building it, so we were happy to see it was finished and busy!

L-R Hugh Alyssa and Karen at Latitudes

Our lives on the boat are mostly dictated by weather, and we had been hoping to sail down to the Exumas with Alyssa for a few days and bring her back to Nassau, as we couldn’t find any flights from Staniel Cay to get her back. But, the wind gods were not on our side, and we were worried about getting her back for her flight on Sunday, with a big front and high winds coming in Friday night. So the decision was made to stay on the dock Tuesday, go out for a couple of nights and anchor, then be back for Friday nights’ blow.

Tuesday was “Explore Nassau Day” and after “tour guide” Hugh did some research about what to see and do, we boarded a local bus that was headed downtown, giving us a cheap tour of some local neighborhoods.  Our first stop was The Water Tower, which was built in 1928 to supply water to the town.

Nassau Water Tower and Fort Fincastle

Beside the water tower is Fort Fincastle, a small fort built in 1793 to protect the entrance to the harbour. There was also a little market with local vendors selling tourist wares. It was a busy place, with busloads of cruise ship passengers coming and going. There were 4 cruise ships in the harbour that day! (a bad thing).

Cruise ships docked in Nassau Harbour

Also in the area was The Queens Staircase, which was carved out of solid limestone by slaves in 1793 to honour Queen Victoria. It is also known as The 66 Steps. It was quite beautiful, with a small waterfall and trees growing in the gorge.

Alyssa and Hugh on Queen's Staircase

We found the John Watling's distillery, and had a tour of the rum factory and a small sample. Established in 1789, it still makes very light to very dark rums.

John Watling's Rum Distillery

Our own tour continued down through several lovely areas of government buildings, The National Art Gallery, and an old hotel, Graycliff. We eventually made our way back to the downtown area and found a bus to take us back to the boat. A busy but interesting day!

Alyssa and a pirate!

On the Wednesday we decided to sail down to West Bay, an anchorage at the west end of New Providence Island, with good protection and holding. We had a lovely sail down, and found a good spot to sit for a couple of days. It was so nice to be off the dock, with the peace of sitting at anchor.

West Bay Sunset

Thursday we went exploring on shore, only to find out that lovely park we were walking in was private and in order to walk or sit there you had to pay an entrance fee of $11 each! So back to the boat we went, and decided to try to find some snorkeling sites we had read about. They are quite busy with tour boats during the day, so we waited until they were gone later in the afternoon, but were quite disappointed with the state of the coral, dull and broken, and few fish. The next area we found was one we had heard about called the Sir Nicholas Nuttall Coral Reef Sculpture Garden, with this huge concrete “man” crouched in the water. We were the only ones there, and I took my GoPro to take pics, but somehow it didn’t work, so no actual pictures to show you, (sorry!) just a copy of one I found.

Sculpture Garden

Friday we left bright and early, in windy conditions (as predicted) and even went through some squalls and fog. We made it back to the dock, and were glad to be there, as the winds really blew that night and Saturday.

We spent the last couple of days with Alyssa exploring more of Nassau, including going to a “fish market”, with locals selling their catch and actually filleting it for you, visiting the Nassau Yacht Club, and taking another local bus to Compass Point for lunch on a very windy, squally day.

Montague Beach Fish Market

Karen and Alyssa at Compass Point

We said goodbye to Alyssa yesterday, and we are now waiting for a good weather window (tomorrow?) to sail up to Eleuthera and visit our friends Sue and Randy who have rented a cottage there for two weeks. It will be really nice to get to another island!

From there we are hoping to go to the Exumas for a few weeks, then start the journey back to Florida.

Hopefully the weather gods will be with us … one day at a time!

Enjoying New Adventures

In Hugh's excitement to post that we had made it to West End, he forgot to mention the lovely day we had in Lake Worth. After sitting on the boat for a very blustery day (it amazes me how noisy wind can be!) we finally got off the boat and dinghied over to the town dock for a walk and a coffee. On the way over we stopped by Malarkey, the boat that we came down from Ft. Pierce with, to see how they fared in the blow and to say hello. They mentioned that they were going to go to the Flagler Museum in the afternoon, with another couple, Elaine and Steve off of S/V October, and would we like to join them? Of course we would! So we all met at the dock and called for Ubers to take us over to the museum on the ritzy Palm Beach side.  We are fairly familiar with Mr. Flagler, as we visited his hotel in St. Augustine on our trip down the ICW, and thoroughly enjoyed it.  The museum in Palm Beach is actually the house, Whitehall, that he built as a wedding gift to his third wife. It has 75 rooms and they only stayed there about two months a year. It was built in 18 months being completed in 1902, which at the time was amazingly fast. We took a tour with the resident Docent and enjoyed hearing all the stories of the couple and the mansion.

Flagler Museum - White Hall

The Museum also houses Flagler's private rail car in which he travelled to the house.  Interestingly, he also built the East Florida Railway from Jacksonville to Key West. Quite a feat!

Flagler Rail Car #91

After the tour we decided to walk over to the Breakers Hotel, which is a very fancy hotel right on the ocean, and have a drink. These cruisers were our kind of people!  I’m still surprised no one stopped us as we were dressed in “boat clothes” and I felt pretty conspicuous! We waltzed in like we owned the place and got a table, a beer and shared some amazing fries (drenched in melted gorgonzola cheese!).  A very fun day with very fun people. One of the things I love about cruising!

Breakers Hotel Palm Beach

So, the next day we crossed to West End (see Hugh’s post). In spite of Daniela and Dennis'  help taking lines we had one of our worst dockings, which Hugh failed to mention! (but no damage). Daniela and Dennis own Viaggio, a Beneteau Oceanis 55 from Annapolis that was docked nearby. We seemed to hit it off right away, and found out it was their first time over to the Bahamas, and they had lots of questions. Since we are such experts (!) we invited them over for swizzles and to talk about cruising. There was also a catamaran docked in the marina (that was it … three sailboats) and we invited them over as well, as it turned out they were also newbies. Tim, Ingrid and crew Mike (hired? We never found out) on S/V Wanderlust from Atlanta. We had a lively discussion about where to go and things to do and see, as Mike slowly got drunker and drunker.

After they left, Daniela and Dennis stayed and we all wondered how quiet Tim and Ingrid put up with Mike. Well, turns out they don’t, as he was released the next day.

So we hung out at Old Bahama Bay for a couple of days, waiting for the weather to calm down, with Daniela and Dennis. On the Tuesday we both decided to travel down to Port Lucaya, which is on the south side of Grand Bahama Island, just east of Freeport. We have never been this way, as we usually go over the top of the Island and head for the Abacos. Due to the devastation caused by Hurricane Dorian, we decided not to go there this year. I’m not sure there is much left of our beloved Hopetown, Man-O-War, and Marsh Harbour. It’s very sad. Even though West End and Port Lucaya were hit by the hurricane, they didn’t get hit as hard, but we can definitely see some damage, and the water is not potable as the treatment plant was damaged and is still not repaired. You could tell when you showered that the water was slightly salty (yuck).  Talking to some of the locals was very interesting as well. They had lots of stories about destruction and survival.

The sail to Lucaya was bumpier and windier than expected, and we were amazed to see two huge oil rigs , not marked on the chart, just before Freeport!

Unmarked oil rig being serviced off Freeport

We docked at Grand Bahamas Yacht Club, had a shower (still salty water) and then over to the pool bar for lunch and a beer! Daniela and Dennis joined us, and we decided to go exploring the next day, with the ultimate goal to find a BTC store to buy a Bahamas sim card, and groceries. After a false start, and a local bus ride (always adventurous) we found both. The grocery store was one of the nicest and cleanest I have seen in the Bahamas. Always exciting! We rode the bus home, right to the marina driveway, and then we had to get ready for our party night!

(L-R) Karen, Hugh, Daniela, Dennis

The marina has a wonderful dockmaster, Fabian, who invites all the cruisers in the marina every Wednesday night to a Fish Fry on a nearby beach. All 12 of us gathered in the parking lot at 6pm, and Fabian and his wife Rosie drove us over.  A good time was had by all, with a great dinner, beer and even dancing!

Fabian (left) hosts us at the fish fry

Friday looked like a good day to cross over to the Berry Islands, and I think nearly all of the boats at the marina left, except for Daniela and Dennis who have to fly home next week, so had decided to keep the boat there while they were gone. We left the dock at 6:20am and had a good motor/sail all the way down to Soldier Cay, passing three cruise ships anchored at Coco Cay, a cay which includes a "village" owned by a cruise line at which ships stop for a day. We anchored, and had a lovely quiet night. The next morning the winds were nil and the water was calm, so we motored to Nassau. On entering the harbour, we saw five more cruise ships waiting at the docks!

Cruise ships lined up in Nassau

So we are now in Nassau, waiting for our daughter Alyssa to join us tomorrow for a week of sailing. We are looking forward to her visit.

After she leaves, we will see where the wind take us ... one day at a time!

Crossed!

We are in West End, Bahamas!

Trekker docked at West End

We decided that today was the last chance we would have to cross for about another week, so we decided to poke our nose into the Gulf Stream, see what it was like and retreat to Lake Worth or Ft. Lauderdale if we didn't like the conditions. 

After waiting for a cruise ship to come through  we cleared Lake Worth inlet about 0730 and set a course for West End.  In fact, due to the Gulf Stream flowing north we were headed quite a bit south of West End.  Our instruments indicated that at it's fastest, the stream was flowing north at 4.7 knots! Swells were about 3 feet to start building to 4 to 5 a third of the way across but they were on our aft quarter or beam so we actually surfed down the face of many of them. As we reached the half way point they started to decrease. Winds started out at 18 knots out of the NW and slowly clocked around to 12 knots out of the ENE by the time we cleared the worst of the stream.  We had our working jib and double reefed main as well as the engine on most of the way across.  As the crow flies we averaged just over 6 knots, but of course we had to fight that Gulf Stream much of the way!

We are checked in with Bahamas Customs and Immigration have our cruising and fishing licences although anyone who knows us knows that we are unlikely to catch any fish, and we are celebrating with a beer and home made guacamole!

Tomorrow we rinse off all the salt!

Cheers!

Waiting to cross

During our busy week home after preparing Trekker for the season we said goodbye to family and friends and attended our niece's baby shower.  While the women were at the shower the men got together for lunch at a local pub.  Eight hours later I was sicker than I have been in years ... methinks food poisoning!  Thankfully it passed nearly as quickly as it came on.  We buttoned up the house, with lots of folks agreeing to keep an eye on it,  and flew down to Fort Lauderdale and drove up to Fort Pierce and Trekker.

We splurged and while we were in Midland had Trekker professionally cleaned, waxed and polished so she looked pretty spiffy when we launched January 31. 

We moved aboard, finished putting her together, recovered our frozen meat and fish from my brother Adrian and bought perishable provisions.  We also visited CBP and completed the appropriate paperwork to travel down the coast and then cross to the Bahamas during the earliest weather window. 

Tuesday February 4 we were up at O'dark o'clock and left the dock at 0700 to travel down to Lake Worth (West Palm).  As we were throwing off the lines we noticed a couple across the dock from us doing likewise and chatted quickly to learn that they too were headed for Lake Worth. It turned out that the couple are Sally and Ian on Malarkey, a Jeaneau 469. They are also planning to go to the Bahamas, but plan to carry on down to Fort Lauderdale and then across to Bimini. 

Our original plan was to cross to West End from Lake Worth on Wednesday. The forecast was for wind and waves up to 1m out of the SSE. Typically one allows for 45 degrees between the wind and heading on a close-hauled course. If the wind was 157.5 degrees, our course steered 126 degrees (because one has to steer 25 degrees south of the heading to West End because the Gulf Stream is flowing north at 2 1/2 -3 knots) that would mean we were only heading 31.5 degrees off the wind, which is too close for us. So ... Wednesday we sat in Lake Worth and again today. A cold front is coming through today so we have winds of 20 gusting to 30 knots.  So far our faithful Rocna is holding us (touch wood and all).  

This is an interesting place to sit. We are adjacent to Rybovich Superyacht Marina that probably has 20 mega yachts lined up at their docks.  We had the 200' yacht ROCKIT anchor behind us this morning.  Apparently its owner made his $1.7B net worth franchising Jimmy John's Gourmet Sandwich shops!

ROCKIT

Our current (loose) plan is to try and cross Saturday to West End although the wind is forecast to be out of the NE, and accepted wisdom is not to cross the Gulf Stream when the wind opposes the current. Alternatively we'll go down to Fort Lauderdale and maybe travel to Bimini with Malarkey. 

So that's all for now, boat systems seem to all be working, including our Lithium batteries, thank goodness. Here we sit until we can cross to the Bahamas ... taking it one day at a time!

Another Year, Another Adventure

Trekker following her summer in Ft. Pierce

For those of you who have been faithful followers of our blog, we last left off with our deciding to sell Trekker, and our upcoming move to our new house in Midland.  The house was Ready for Takeover ahead of schedule and close to budget and we moved in September 18, 2019. Within a few  busy weeks Midland felt  like home.  We attended a few parties, welcomed 45 folks to our open house, joined Askennonia, A Centre for People 55+, (we call ourselves "Junior Seniors") and the Midland Curling Club. We've been curling a couple of times a week, I've  been taking Ukulele lessons and yoga and Hugh has been playing pickle ball occasionally and was acclaimed Vice-Commodore of the Midland Bay Sailing Club. We also volunteered at the local community theatre as ushers for their first play of the season. There's nothing like jumping into a community with both feet! And then there is the snow ... it was like a switch was turned on, and as of November 1st it has been pretty white up here!
So as time went by, and sailing friends started talking about heading south to their boats in warm places, we started thinking about what to do with Trekker.  She did not sell over the summer. Being located in Florida did not help. She is a Canadian registered boat, and can not be sold (or even shown) to an American resident without importing her into the States (at great cost, and time). Also, there are thousands of boats for sale down there, so our market was reduced to a Canadian or someone not from the States looking for a great cruising boat, ready to go.  Also, we starting doing some research into what we could  buy to replace her. Trekker is just a little too long and wide to dock at the Midland Bay Sailing Club.  The thought was to get  something a little smaller that we could keep at the club, since its only a four minute drive from our new house!  But we came to the conclusion that we have a great boat, upgraded the way we want. So ... after much thought we have taken her off the market and have decided to keep her. 
So, you ask, what now?  After much discussion we have decided that we would love to have her back in clean, fresh, wonderful Georgian Bay, especially now that we are living here and can go for a day or mid-week cruise without much effort or having to drive two and a half hours from Kitchener. 
We looked into trucking her back home, but that is super expensive.  The thought of bringing her back up the Intercoastal Waterway (ICW) and trying to get under those bridges again  makes our hearts palpitate! And The Admiral (me) is not keen on sailing  her up the Atlantic coast for three to four days straight to avoid those bridges. 
So, we are now trying to find a trucking company that would truck just the mast north, and we will come home via the ICW, pretending to be a trawler! 
We have also decided to go across to the Bahamas one more time, since it is too soon (and cold) to start bringing her up the ICW in January. And this way we can avoid most of the Canadian winter!
We left on January 10th and drove down to the boat to get her ready for the season. We decided not to launch her until the end of January, so we spent a week getting the canvas on, sails on, and some provisions onboard.  We then drove back home. It sounds crazy, but we really didn't want the car to sit in Florida while we brought the boat back home,  then we would have to go back to get it at some point. So we are now home for a week, and are flying back down January 30th. The boat goes in the water on the 31st, and we will move on board.  
The plan right now is to sail over to the Bahamas for February and March, then head back to Florida at the beginning of April, take the mast down, and slowly head north.  We have wonderful memories of exploring the great little towns along the east coast during our trip down, so we plan to go to places we missed on the way down and do some more exploring. We will be re-tracing our voyage down, heading up the Hudson River and across the Erie Canal (and all those locks!) again. The Erie Canal does not open until mid May, so we hope to be back to Midland by mid-June. We will keep her at Hindsons Marina, where we docked her before we left, and even have the same slip we had three years ago! (its a ten minute drive to get there)
Crazy, I know, I really didn't think I would be doing this again, but hey, I'm always up for another adventure!
So we invite you to travel along with us, exploring new and old places ... one day at a time!

Trekker's travels conclude for 2019

For those who follow Trekker's Travels, sorry for leaving you hanging at Treasure Cay!

We did get a slip at Mangoes.  Much to our surprise quite a few folks that we met last year were there, which was great fun.

I made it to my meeting in Kelowna, although I'd rather not repeat that trip anytime soon.  Marsh Harbour to Nassau, Toronto, Vancouver and Kelowna are too many flights for one day! 

Alyssa and I met in Nassau and she carried on to meet Karen for the week in Marsh Harbour. They walked Marsh Harbour, took the ferry to Hope Town for the day and snorkeled with some other marina guests.

Karen and Alyssa on Elbow Cay

Karen and Alyssa snorkeling 

When I got back we had a good weather window and took Alyssa through the "Whale", seeing a water spout on the way.

Waterspout

After a few days based in Green Turtle Cay we put Alyssa on the ferry back to Treasure Cay and high tailed it for Spanish, then Great Sale Cay and then an overnight sail across the bank and Gulf Stream to Fort Pierce.

Hugh Alyssa and Karen at Bluff House

Unfortunately the wind ran out around 0400 so we weren't able to sail all the way from Great Sale.  

Beautiful full moon that lit our way across the Gulf Stream

In Fort Pierce we put the boat away, deciding to leave everything aboard this year.  We drove to Lake Placid FL and met Bob, Sheila, Bill and Michael for lunch and enjoyed swapping stories.  

Hugh Michael Karen Sheila Bob and Bill

Then we hopped in Karen's trusty Subaru Outback and headed home.

Trekker put away for the summer

For those that haven't heard, Trekker is for sale. What ... ??!! There are a number of reasons, listed not in any particular order of importance.

After two winters in the Bahamas, we decided that as much as we like them, there are too many other places to see to spend every winter  in the Bahamas.

We feel like we experienced climate change first hand, hiding from a big blow, it seemed, every week.  Maybe that's the new normal ....

As anyone who owns a boat (Bring Out Another Thousand) knows, it's not cheap to own and maintain a boat, especially in Florida.  We think we could take some nice winter vacations with just the amount we spend on summer storage.

While you can't beat crystal clear blue Bahamian water, nothing is better than diving into the fresh water of Georgian Bay! We're excited at the thought of getting a slightly smaller boat that we can keep at Midland Bay Sailing Club, and cruising the Great Lakes.

Since arriving home at the end of April we have been focused on two things; selling our Kitchener condo (check) and building our new house in Midland (well under way)!  With any luck we'll be moving mid September.

Loughborough's new Midland house

In the meantime we're looking forward to welcoming Bob and Sheila (Her Diamond) to Kitchener and showing them Waterloo Region and Midland and to taking a tour of the southern Thirty Thousand Islands on the Miss Midland tour boat.

Then it's off to PEI to spend a week with Karen's sister Janette and her husband Rob at a cottage in Cavendish. After that we will spend a couple of weeks in Newfoundland including a meeting in St. John's. 

When we get back we have two weeks to pack for our move! Can't wait to experience life in Midland, one day at a time!

The Abacos

The Famous Hope Town Lighthouse

 We have been playing in the Abacos for the last couple of weeks, and time is slowly disappearing, before we return to Florida and home. We have been taking our time, and visiting a few of the islands that make up the Abacos, including one of our favorite places from last year, Hope Town, on Elbow Cay.

We were able to snag a mooring ball in Hope Town, going over from Man’O’War early one morning and grabbing the only one available in the harbour. One of our complaints regarding the mooring field is that there will appear to be many open balls, only to get close to one and see a “reserved” sign on it.  And it may sit empty for a week, as the renters are off somewhere and since they have paid for it for the time away, they can hold it. There must be some way to let people know they can have it for a few days while they are gone. We discussed an app for this ... lol … or a business of coordinating empty balls. We watched lots of boats, especially charter boats, coming in at the end of a day expecting to see an open ball, picking one up, then being chased off by a neighboring boat telling them its reserved. We had another blow while we were sitting there, and watched the chaos as boats tried to get secure before it arrived. We felt very lucky to have picked one up when we did!

Hope Town, much like the rest of the Bahamas, didn’t hold the same magical appeal for us this year. Maybe because it wasn’t all new this year. We also found that, even though we have met up with a lot of different boats and travelled together for a few days, we missed having a constant buddy boat. We were joined by Janice and Harley (Folly) in Hope Town for a couple of days, which was great fun. We even convinced them to go to Monday night JACKS (bingo) at Captain Jacks Restaurant, which was as crazy as ever. We enjoyed a drink and a game of euchre while waiting for it to start. Like last year, we had to get there by 4:30 to get a table for the 6pm game! After bingo we walked over to our favorite restaurant, Wine Down Sip Sip for a great dinner.

Hugh, Janice, Harley, Karen

We also had a great afternoon on the (empty) beach hunting for sea glass. The secret (we discovered) is to go at a calm low tide, and to search out pebbly sand, not hard sand, that hides these wonderful treasures. We got quite the handful in all shapes, sizes and colour.

One day of sea glass bounty!

Folly left Tuesday morning to start their trip back to Florida, and their ball was quickly taken by Lynn and Pat (Adamant I from Midland Bay Sailing Club)) who joined us for a night.  They are also on their way north now, but are taking their boat back to Midland, so they still have quite a journey ahead of them! We spent most of our mornings going into town and having a coffee at Hopetown Coffee House, which has great coffee and a lovely porch to enjoy it on.

We also climbed the 100 steps up the famous Hope Town lighthouse to enjoy the wonderful 360 degree view up there. Can you pick out Trekker in the mooring field?

Trekker is lower right boat!

There weren’t any golf carts available for rent the whole time we were there, so we did not go as far afield as last year. Lots of walking and exploring in the town, and along the beach kept us busy. We rode out another blow (sigh) which ended sea glass hunting expeditions, with the big waves crashing ashore.  We also had the pleasure of meeting up with another couple, Phil and Michelle on Mariposa, whom we met last year. They live in B.C., and had decided to take a year off working, sold their Café, and bought a boat in New Brunswick and sailed it down to the Bahamas. We met them practically the first day we arrived in the Bahamas last year, and kept bumping into each other throughout the Abacos, spending a few fun days together. They loved the Bahamas so much that they came back for another season, and we have been trying to catch up to them. Finally, there they were in Hope Town, so we had dinner together one night on Trekker, and a game of euchre one afternoon. We said another good-bye as they headed north back to New Brunswick to sell the boat and work for a few years to build up their cruising kitty for a bigger boat. We stayed in Hope Town for nine days, and really felt like it was time to move on and see some other spots in the area. We motored up to Great Guana Cay and our thought was to spend a couple of nights on the anchor while it was calm, and then move over to Treasure Cay for yet another “blow”. Since it had calmed down so much we decided to try to snorkel off the beach on the east side (Atlantic) of the island, as we had heard there was a great reef to swim out to. We were disappointed with what we saw, and wonder if we didn’t go out far enough, but it’s pretty creepy snorkeling in the Atlantic when you really don’t know where you are going! We had a nice lunch at the famous beach bar Nippers and then headed back to the boat. The wind had already started to pick up and it was blowing from the southwest, a direction from which our anchorage provided no protection. So we quickly decided to up anchor and go over to Treasure Cay and get a mooring ball (hopefully!) for the night. We entered to harbour with bated breath, after our experience in Hope Town, but were pleased to see quite a few open balls.  The mooring field is right beside the marina, where we have reserved for a night (or more) to get fresh water, and get ready for Alyssa to come!

Treasure Cay Beach

The next challenge is where we are going to stay while Hugh is away. We called Mangoes Marina in Marsh Harbour about a month ago to book a slip, but because it is small, and people don’t leave when they say they will, they will only tell us we are on the “reservation list” and to call the day before we want to come in, to see if they have a slip for us! We have also called all the other marinas in Marsh Harbour with either the same answer, or told they are full! So, tomorrow we will find out if we have a slip. If not, we will stay in Treasure Cay. There are worse places to stay for a few days!!

Treasure Cay Resort and Marina

Once Alyssa heads back home we will head to Florida to tuck Trekker away for the summer and head north for our next adventure, building a house in Midland! Crazy!

The adventure continues … one day at a time.