We were able to take our time and meander from small town to small town; living life on the hook as they say. At first, we were pretty much by ourselves with no one around in these little anchorages. We explored Yorktown and continued the history lessons. Fact, if it wasn’t for the French who knows how our country would have ended. We fought the good fight. We found all sorts of cute mariner’s museums. Ubered over to Newport and found a wonderfully large mariners museum that had just about everything including the Merrimac and Monitor that were the first battleships that fought in the Civil War.
The break from marina fees was wonderful, the tiny towns, the little restaurants and ice cream shops. We were able to put our little bikes in the dinghy explore. Then we discovered Deltaville. Small town USA. Two ice cream shops, baseball, family boat building a great fruit and vegetable stand; what’s not to love! Chris and Jan on Sapphire dinghied over and said they recognized us from Marsh Harbor and then we were fast friends! Shortly after Wind Ensemble caught up and were there too! (they were just returning from making their way up to DC), before we knew it, we had a little bicycle gang, going for dinner and ice cream; getting together on each other’s boats for dinner and cocktails! Then Wind Ensemble flew home again and we set off for other rivers on the Chesapeake.
Then unexpectedly we were back in Deltaville as David required an unplanned medical procedure. Nothing like recovering from surgery by dinghy and sailboat. He was such a trouper! Not necessarily ideal conditions when you don’t feel good, but he made the best of it! My sister Tamara was flying out from California at the same time and though the plan wasn’t to be in Deltaville when she was there we too made the best of it and after a couple of days sailed over to the Potomac and up to DC.
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