Well, well, well! Little did we know when we decided to take a side trip to Niagara Falls with Ron & Jackie from Skelton Crew that we’d find everything we were searching for! Well…at least according to our blog name! 😉 We’d been in Buffalo since Friday afternoon and...
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Welcoming Party in Dunkirk
We finally made it out of Erie, PA and headed to Dunkirk, NY on a Thursday. We’d heard there was a long municipal wall that we could pull up to, and bonus, it was free! We’d also heard that the town wasn’t much to look at and there really...
Provisioning in Erie
Our freezer is tiny…which means we can’t keep a lot of meat frozen at once…which means we need to go to a grocery store way more than when we’re at home. Fortunately, we have bikes that we carry with us. Unfortunately, sometimes the grocery stores aren’t very close…and sometimes...
We’re in Cruising World Magazine!
Some of you may remember earlier this year when Jim entered one of the pictures he took on our cruise to the North Channel of Lake Huron last summer in Cruising World’s annual photo contest. The editors of the magazine picked their top 10 photos out of all of...
Man Overboard!
Don’t worry Mom, no one really went overboard! We were on our way from Cleveland to Geneva motor sailing in about 15 knots of wind from behind with two to four foot waves left over from strong winds of the previous 24 hours. It was pretty rock and rolly,...
We Found our First Mermaid!
O.K…..So maybe we didn’t exactly find a mermaid, but a mermaid definitely found us! After a beautiful day of sailing from Lorain, Ohio to Whiskey Island in Cleveland, Ohio we got a message from some friends asking if we’d like some company. Of course we would! We love seeing...
Saying Good-Bye to the Lake Erie Islands
Other than leaving our two boys behind in Michigan, one of the hardest things about leaving our typical western Lake Erie cruising grounds is going to be not being able to spend time at the Lake Erie Islands. For the past several years we’ve spent as many weekends as...