Merry
Christmas from Texas and the crew of The
Pearl. 2012 was a great cruising season for us. We enjoyed spending part of
the season cruising with friends and made a lot more along the way. We enjoyed
the spring working on boat projects at Atlantic Yacht Basin in Great Bridge, VA
and rediscovering some of our favorite places in the Chesapeake. After Memorial
Day we headed up the east coast and spent the summer exploring New York, the
Erie Canal, Lake Ontario, the Thousand Islands, the Rideau Canal, Ottawa,
Montreal, the Richelieu and Lake Champlain. This part of the country is amazingly
beautiful and we fell in love with upstate New York. The sights and the
weather couldn’t have been better. We have a lot of people who spend winter in
our area of Texas…we call them “Winter Texans”…we have become “Summer Yankees”,
and love it. There just isn’t a better place to be when the heat moves into the
south. We finished our cruising season by enjoying September in Baltimore
catching up with friends and sampling some of the great restaurants (and taverns) it
has to offer.
I understand about upstate NY, our home stomping grounds. Pam and I went up there last summer, we missed it more than we realized. We bought ten acres in the Adirondacks and will swallow the anchor next year and build a small off grid place up there. I'm glad you fell in love with it too.
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