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Seek Ye Adventure? Inquire Within...
Every year or so I'll get randomly homesick for the place where I'm not. For those who don't know me, I've bounced back and forth from San Antonio TX to Annapolis MD Washington DC Baltimore MD and back again on and off for the past 7 years since graduating.
My father just got back from a trip back east and he brought home some leaves that had changed color, pictures of sailing folk from the Annapolis Boat Show and a great free magazine called Spinsheet that I particularly love. And bagels, even days old, we just can't get it right in south Texas.
sigh...
I wish I could just take a trip to visit my friends in DC, and skulk around on the eastern shore in towns like Chestertown amongst local watermen and various Washingtonians out for a country trip. There's a place in particular that I long for called Hoopers Island where my dad and I lived for a few weeks in October of 2002. With the task of putting a canvas deck on a friend's 35ft classic Chris Craft, we stayed in one of those huge turn-of-the-century farmhouses that can easily fit a family of 13 and drank Nescafe at every opportunity to keep warm. No heat except fireplaces, and in late summer the local neighbors were all from Mexico, migrant workers up to pick crabmeat for packaging.
Even though this time of the year is when tall ships and schooners go in for downrigging and sailors go equatorial for the off-season, I get the itch to take an adventure in the wake of all the fall boat shows and regattas. The ship I'd really love to crew on is the barque Picton Castle http://www.picton-castle.com/. They have a great program, but they cost way too damn much. I'd have to sell all my possessions just to be able to afford it. I love their destinations though, so maybe one day if I'm independently wealthy and still under 40, I'll do it.
I will however take this moment to declare my strange and abiding love for the schooner Virginia, it's hands-down THE prettiest schooner in the entire world and I do want to sail on it as well. http://schoonervirginia.org/
sessy...
nostalgicMy father just got back from a trip back east and he brought home some leaves that had changed color, pictures of sailing folk from the Annapolis Boat Show and a great free magazine called Spinsheet that I particularly love. And bagels, even days old, we just can't get it right in south Texas.
sigh...
I wish I could just take a trip to visit my friends in DC, and skulk around on the eastern shore in towns like Chestertown amongst local watermen and various Washingtonians out for a country trip. There's a place in particular that I long for called Hoopers Island where my dad and I lived for a few weeks in October of 2002. With the task of putting a canvas deck on a friend's 35ft classic Chris Craft, we stayed in one of those huge turn-of-the-century farmhouses that can easily fit a family of 13 and drank Nescafe at every opportunity to keep warm. No heat except fireplaces, and in late summer the local neighbors were all from Mexico, migrant workers up to pick crabmeat for packaging.
Even though this time of the year is when tall ships and schooners go in for downrigging and sailors go equatorial for the off-season, I get the itch to take an adventure in the wake of all the fall boat shows and regattas. The ship I'd really love to crew on is the barque Picton Castle http://www.picton-castle.com/. They have a great program, but they cost way too damn much. I'd have to sell all my possessions just to be able to afford it. I love their destinations though, so maybe one day if I'm independently wealthy and still under 40, I'll do it.
I will however take this moment to declare my strange and abiding love for the schooner Virginia, it's hands-down THE prettiest schooner in the entire world and I do want to sail on it as well. http://schoonervirginia.org/
sessy...
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