Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Vacation news-53 and back down to a size 32
The third day of vacation. (remember that old song?)
We went boating again today, up the Thames River. We getting very good at putting the canoe on top of the pickup and securing it so it doesn't fall off on the middle of the road.
We got an early start today and left the boat on the truck overnight, hoping that it would not be liberated while we were sleeping. It was still there when the sun came up. The eary start was encouraged by the weather reports that strongly suggested rain and, God forbid, thunderstorms in the afternoon.
None occurred but we stayed close to home.
We put the boat in at launch on the Thames River, right under the Gorton Bridge. A strange experience. A few hundred yards in the air is I-95, both directions, and you have to think about someday, everything bites the dust someday, that it will fall. (it happened in Greenwich twenty years ago) When you're under the bridge you hear the truck brakes and the traffic, you work to put the boat in the water so you can get away from it all.
Which we did.
Went upriver past the Coast Guard Academy but stayed on the western side of the river away from the Sub Base. I may be a little paranoid, but in this day and age, I have visions of gunboats opening up on us should we get too close to the big boats.
We saw some people down at the dock. I used to think that people like them were out of a job or on vacation. Now I have to reconsider, since I am one. They might be working on third shift.
We did some walking downtown New London and had lunch. Went to the Thrift Store, run by the Church, up the street and they were having a sale on summer goods. Got a pair of shorts, LL Bean, for two buck. Size 32. Fit like a glove. Went running and did my workouts this morning, before boating. A good day for an old chap of 53.
I go back to work Saturday at midnight. They call it Sunday, which it is but I'm still in the daytime mode of time thinking.
I'll be adjusting my sleep mode over the next few day.
Doing art museums tomorrow.
- posted by Peter Roberts @ 3:30 PM
