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5/21/2025 Wandering

Last night we had a quiet dinner in Beaufort’s very loud Mazcalito Restaurant. Pete and I are too engine-noise deaf to wander into so much noise and still expect to converse. The company was still good, as was a fat plate of shrimp-and-pork-nugget supreme nachos we four shared, and frosty 22-ounce mugs of Dos EquisContinue reading “5/21/2025 Wandering”

5/20/2025 Freedom Park

Katie does one thing better than anything else. She runs. Today she got a 4.5 mile round trip run from Homer Smith’s Docks to Beaufort’s Freedom Park. Pete held her leash. He and I biked. We found the trail that let us bypass the shoulder-less county road. At the park, Katie ran and ran onContinue reading “5/20/2025 Freedom Park”

5/15/2025 Flags

I’m not excited about walking Katie. It’s hot. I don’t do well in heat. I think about black flag days, terminology the military uses to indicate people are at risk for heat exhaustion. Someone told Pete it’s ten degrees hotter than it should be this time of year. Fortunately, there’s a stiff, cooling, southwestern breeze.Continue reading “5/15/2025 Flags”

5/5/2025 Thunderbolt

Short day today: 32 miles from Kilkenny Marina & Fish Camp to Bahia Blue Marina in Thunderbolt, Georgia. I drove while we moored and unmoored; some while we were in the ICW; and the fun part, going up on plane – 2500 rpm, 19 mph – as we turned into the Ogeechee River. It’s wideContinue reading “5/5/2025 Thunderbolt”