The Muskegon river as seen from Kevin and Ann's property.

This is the tram that takes you up and down that steep hill up to the house.  Takes 8 minutes for it to go one way.

Kevin in the river doing what he loves.

Ann and Kevin.

Well, I have been having fun.  The travel continues.  Back on June 6 I flew to Minneapolis.  Spent several days with my mother, whose condition hasn't changed in years, and also my brothers and families.  Also spent time with friends from high school.  A serious blast from the past.
Thanks so much to my youngest brother and his wife (Kathy and Kevin).  They juggled their schedules every day so that I would have a car to use.
Then a flew back to Grand Rapids and my car which I have sorely missed.  Have seen many friends since I  got here a week ago.  Still have not seen my son which breaks my heart. But i have had the opportunity to go kayaking on the Muskegon river which runs right passed Ann and Kevin's new house.  It's a dream come true to have friends own property right on  our favorite river.
I am really enjoying this lovely Midwestern weather.  Hardly any humidity and cool at night.
I will be driving back to Ann Arbor on Tuesday.  Sorry if I didn't get a chance to see everyone that I had planned to see.  Next time or you could come down to see us.
Anxious to see my sweetie and his dog.  Have a long drive to make on Wednesday.  More to come.

We had looper friends come in to port 2 days ago.  Cary and Nancy on LeeLou and Tom and Vicky on Grand Baron.  We all went out to dinner together just like old times in Wisconsin.  And it has been raining ever since.  Trying to do the indoor stuff that I get distracted from when the weather is nice but it's a drag to have 3 days of rain and no hope that it is going to let up any time soon.
I am planning on leaving in 4 days to drive back to Michigan.  I know I will miss these relaxing rainy days then.
More to come.

Rain in the harbor.

Playing computer games.

Lazy dog.

Our new home.

A big ship headed out the inlet.  Just trying to stay out of the way.

What not to do.

We are here!  This is our home for the next 5 months.  I plan to drive back to Michigan with my friend Mary on June 4.  Will see some of you then.
We have been having fun.  Stopped in Southport, N. C. then on to Swan Point Marina  (quite the character marina) then spent last night at Morehead City Yacht Basin.  Got up this morning and did a relaxed 40 mile run into New Bern.  Feels like home already.
2 days ago we had to go around the training area for the marines, Camp Lejeune.  I called the day before to find out if it was OK to go thru that area and was told that there were no scheduled maneuvers going on for the next day.  We had to go under a lift bridge and apparently you can't get passed the bridge if the Marines are around.  We could hear artillery fire in the distance and big booms.  I hope I never have to spend time in a war zone.  I jumped every time it got loud and was glad to get out of that area.  Then yesterday we were going down the icw which parallels the Atlantic there and we heard a "mayday" call on the boat radio.  Lots of people are on there talking about stupid stuff normally, which they are not suppose to do.  But all of a sudden things got very quiet.  We were all listening to this fishing boat say that he just saw two planes crash and saw 4 parachutes come out.  He went and rescued two of them.  That was just the other side of that spit of land from us.  Guess they were Navy planes and pilots.  Guess each plane was worth $58million dollars.  Oh well.  At least no one was hurt.
Hope to see some of you soon.  It feels good not to have to get up and get ready to leave tomorrow.

There we are at the end of the dock at Georgetown, S. C.

It was a beautiful  night with a full moon at Georgetown.

This is the beginning of the rock pile.  Doesn't look like much.

This is a navigational aid for the airport near by.  I thought it looked like something from outer space.

We made it through the "rock pile"!  It is a man made part of the icw that has rock shelves on either side and rocks piled up beyond that.  So it is not a problem if you stay in the middle where there is plenty of water.  We are now just North of North Myrtle Beach, S. C.   We are in a very nice very large marina.  Met some people who told a story about a guy who just last week went outside the channel and tore a hole in the bottom of his boat.  Just amazing because really, all you had to do was stay in the middle.  We heard another story about people on a sailboat who had a small dog who got to their destination and had no dog.  (Our dog can't get off our deck without help.)  We also heard that there is a small alligator living in this little bay with all the boats.  We will be keeping a watch out for him.  We haven't seen an alligator yet but people keep telling us they are around.
The water here is mostly fresh water which is amazing because we are close to an inlet from the ocean.  Most of the icw in this area is fresh water.  It is a very dark color maybe because of minerals (?)
It is a cool and sunny day here.  Just perfect.  It is suppose to get into the 90's by the end of the week.  We expect to be at our destination, New Bern, N. C. by Friday.  We will be there for 5 months.  So everybody, come on down.