A SHORT "FALL" TRIP

I guess it is not officially winter until December 21st but it sure feels like it. We needed to get the coach out and put a few miles on it. Not good for these things to just sit. We decided to head up to our local home campground which is north of Bellingham,near the Canadian border.

The sun has been shining the whole time but night time temps have been in the upper 20's. Daytime temps depend on if you are standing in the sun or not. The last couple of days had high wind advisories. We got hit by some wind gusts coming up here that were significant enough for me to have to slow down to 45 - 50 mph on the freeway to keep control of the coach.

With temps in the mid 30's and wind gusts also in the 30's the wind chill factor gets down to around ZERO. Like I said that sure "feels" like winter.

The pictures are of MOUNT BAKER, Arly on the beach, the Canadian Rockies where the Winter Olympics are soon to be held and the sparsely populated campground.

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Our Winter diggs.

Here are a few pictures of where we will be for the winter

Cruise to Hawaii

We celebrated our 40th wedding anniversary by going on a cruise to Hawaii with our good friends Craig and Janet Wilkie, and Larry and Linda Bergo.

Norv inside and out.

Here are few more recent pictures of Norv.

Oyster 435 for sale

We have our sailboat for sale through Sailboats at Shilshole. The pictures are posted on SAS website http://www.sasyachts.com

A Very Big Day!

Yesterday was a big day in our adventure. I signed a listing agreement with a broker to sell Denita and began moving "stuff" off the boat and bringing it here to Norv. Living in two places means that what you need is never where you are so I think it is going to be easier to haul what I need back and forth. There are one or two small projects to do on the boat so I will have to carry my tools around more but at least they will be where I am most of the time. I will still be sleeping on the boat a night or two a week. It was important to get the boat listed now as there is a major boat show coming up in September and the broker wanted to have her listed at their display and on the internet. Here is a link to the listing.

It could take some time to sell her and we are not in a big hurry so we can afford to hold out for a good price. Judy, our broker, tells us that people are not ordering new boats in this economy and since they are hanging on to what they have there are not as many blue water boats like ours on the market as there might be normally. I guess time will tell. We are going to take our time and if we still have her next summer, oh well, I guess we will just have to take her sailing!

In the mean time we continue to work at making Norv our full time home.

Walt

Norv Movie (click play button to start)

These pictures were posted on the Poulsbo RV

site when we purchased Norv II