Day 242: Saturday, May 4, 2013

Port to Port: Portsmouth, Virginia

Underway: 0:00 am      Motor Off: 0:00 pm      Miles Traveled:       Stayed At: Free Dock

First Things First: First time the dock has been underwater due to higher than usual tides.

Mile 0 to Mile 0: It was a cool, misty and windy morning but we couldn’t just lay around and read all day. It’s the First Saturday in Portsmouth so we wandered downtown with Roger and Dorothy to check out the farmers market and the flea market. We found some homemade dinner rolls and fresh beans to add to our meat loaf dinner tonight. The flea market had some neat old nautical antiques that I may have been tempted to buy in another life but we escaped with our wallets intact.

I have been having issues with my phone – when I try to use the hotspot feature to connect the computer it loses its data connection. That makes it kind of useless. After several phone calls  and a couple hours trying, I find out that somehow they dropped my hotspot service even though I have it on autopay and it took two long calls to get it restarted. We’ll see how long this lasts. I also stopped at the library to get the blog updated and after trying to connect several times find out that their wifi isn’t working either and no one there knows how to reset it. Strike two on technology.

Before dinner, I wandered around the Olde Towne section of Portsmouth to take a few more pictures and by the time I came back, the dock had 2” of water over it caused by a combination of high tides and wind driven water. Makes life interesting. Cindy brought meatloaf, fresh beans and red potatoes over to Slow Churn and Dorothy cooked everything for a wonderful dinner. We watched a Red Box movie – Flight – and said goodnight after another busy day. We are enjoying Portsmouth – especially with Slow Churn here with us – but everyone is getting antsy to move north. Wednesday is looking good so far so we need to just have patience and enjoy each day as it comes.