Day 244: Monday, May 6, 2013

Port to Port: Portsmouth, Virginia

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled: 0      Stayed At: Free Dock

Mile 0 to Mile 0: We are ready to go whenever mother nature cooperates. We are gassed up, charged up, fully provisioned and our course is plotted. This is a beautiful old city and has been an amazing place to visit but we are ready for some new adventures.

After doing a couple of errands, I tried getting some work done at the library using their wifi but, of course, it wasn’t working yet. So I wrote a little, plotted our course and met Cindy, Roger and Dorothy at a Chinese buffet a block away. Wayne and Rhonda on “Help Me Rhonda” also joined us for lunch. They have traveled with Slow Churn many times in the past. It was fun to hear about their many adventures over the years. We ate too much but it was a nice treat before we move on from Portsmouth. I went back to the library to work some more but ended up at McDonalds again to use their free wifi – for the cost of a medium diet Coke.

Cindy had picked up another Redbox movie so we headed over to Slow Churn for a wonderful chicken and mashed potato dinner (we need to put on some more miles again) and one last movie before we say goodbye again. The weather looks great Wednesday through Friday. Tomorrow we plan to make a short 13 mile hop across the channel to Hampton and maybe up the Chesapeake about 5 miles to get started going north – finally. We can only hope.