| Wayfarer
Midwinters Lake Eustis Sailing Club * February 2-4 , 2007 after the Midwinters & home pics mostly by Marc Bennett & Uncle Al |
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| Still speaking of beady eyes:
these ones supervising ... ... |
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| ... my munchies box on the ... ... |
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| ... beach out in ... ... |
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| ... front ... ... |
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| ... of ... ... |
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| ... the Inn. ... |
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| More laziness on ... ... |
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| ... Wednesday afternoon. ... |
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| After a nice long walk up the
beach to the Duck and back,
Marc had had enough sun, and settled in for a pre-dinner read. ... |
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| Thursday was departure day with
an overnight stop scheduled chez Mike and Dotty. But first we wanted to
check out ... ... |
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| ... the other of the two waters 'tween which the Inn is. ... |
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| Fishermen ... ... |
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| ... absolutely ... ... |
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| ... everywhere!! ... |
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| One last visit to the Duck for a ... ... |
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| ... beer in the lovely 80°
sunshine, and then it was time to start moseying on back towards Eustis
where Dotty and Mike had promised us our annual sumptuous ... ... |
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| ... Friday farewell breakfast.
Thanks, Mike and Dotty, for a delicious morning feast, and for your
kind and relaxed hospitality throughout our Midwinters stay. ... |
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| Friday morning at the club: (l to r) Marc, Mike, Dotty, Al. It
only remained for us to pick up SHADES,
and we ... ... |
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| ... would be off on our planned
three-day trip home, mostly via I-75. ... |
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I believe Marc took this shot
somewhere on the nice relaxing back-roads short-cut suggested to us by
Mike and Dotty for reaching I-75 north. I can't recall exactly where
this was but do recall that it got seriously colder than this - near
freezing - by the time we made it half-way through Georgia. As we had
hoped, we made it to Chattanooga, just over the state line into
Tennessee, in time for a not-too-late dinner. The next morning, a
frosty Saturday, we were off early through the ...
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| ... mountains ... ... |
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| ... of Tennessee and Kentucky. ... |
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| By mid-afternoon, we had made it
most of the way through Ohio, to Lima, where we had dinner in a fine
steakhouse crowded without Saturday night locals, before we bedded down. ... |
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At 0930 hrs on Sunday, we
crossed back into Canada via the bridge in Windsor. We were very lucky
with the weather on our entire trip back: Horror stories of eight feet
of snow in Oswego and
four more feet expected that day in the southeast corner of Lake
Ontario came over the radio, but all we got was a bit of Friday rain as
we passed Atlanta, and we ...
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| ... we were
home again shortly after noon on the Sunday without any road salt caked
on boat, trailer, cover or car!!! Marc and I quickly stashed SHADES in the garage, hung the mast
up on the outside of the garage, and our 2007 Midwinters was a
treasured piece of our history.
And may I say that once again, that our Midwinters 2007 odyssey was
time and money extremely
well spent! The next Midwinters simply cannot come too soon for Marc
and me!!! |