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| Mike drove to Seattle to buy our dinghy! |
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| Life on the river - it's good! |
It’s been an adventure or two since we drove north to Portland
getting back into what I call “Normal People Mode”, joining the ranks of
working people trying to fit it all into 24 hours. It’s a serious transition
from boat life to traditional work life, as many know.
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| Portland Fireboat from our deck |
We started work the day after we arrived (April 14th)
and we both have worked at least one job every day since. We are super thankful
that we have so much work, quite different than last summer.
We gleefully moved into our friends' fabulous floating home on the Columbia River while they are in Fiji, and we set
up for summer transition
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| Our daily heron visit |
After a bout of giardia we contracted in early April, thanks
to careless water consumption in Mexico, we are both doing better after a round
of antibiotics followed by probiotics. A reminder that hot water and careful washing
of all food is critical especially south of the border.
And on to life in Portland! Thanks to our amazing friends, 6 months of mail was picked up and purged, my
car was well cared for in a garage, we borrowed a
truck to move our stuff, had our old grill delivered(!), have access to a
pontoon boat to move up river, and even enjoyed a few evenings with flexible
friends working around our wacky schedules.
Mike is busily selling sailboats and teaching ASA sailing lessons. He's just listed our friends' boat currently in Mexico. If you know of anyone who's ready, check out this listing: http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/1987/Catalina-Morgan-Classic-41-2853447/San-Carlos/Mexico#.VYQ0w0YRqgS
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Cool sunset after our
gig at West Marine |
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| Mike sold a boat to this nice family |
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| Our 6 months' of mail - thanks to Ilene |
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| The Clampett's - moving our stuff again |
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| Our new place ready to move in |
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| The new U-Haul! upriver we go - Mike with Chuck at the helm |
We’re now moving on - up the river a mile to our new digs (which
are actually our old digs from 2013, this time unfurnished but our place,
nonetheless). Lisa’s dad Chuck lives in the same moorage so we’ve been
fortunate to spend some time with him, and he and Mike worked together to fix
the pontoon boat for her season starting voyage. I was escorted upriver like a
princess to see our new place. It was pretty darn magical.
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| Our new place for 4 months |
