today was one of those good-n-simple sailing days. not a lot to report, which must mean that we're getting a-hang of this sailing stuff! it was a sunny day sailing from the delmarva penninsula (del-aware, mar-yland, v-irgini-a) on the east side of the chesapeak across to the west side, and farther on down south. souther than we have been yet! winds varried from lightish to light, ussually on our tail, which was nice for a change. our plan is to keep heading south, river by river until we get to the mouth of the bay, and then if we have time and wind (oh boy oh boy) we will venture out into the big atlantic ocean! the next river down is the famous potomak. you know, the one with george washington crossing in that little boat, and the one that washington dc is on. then the rappahannock river is the next river south. we hear there's some beautiful places there, and a good marina we may winter cricket over at. then famous york and james rivers. the "birthplaces" of the usa. historic sites, such as yorktown, jamestown (ahhh, thus the names of the rivers!) and colonial williamsburg. looking forward to seeing a few of those places, and having becca (used to be steinmeier) and jason and anna and david vandewettering visit the boat down there!
today we are in a town called solomons landing. we are anchored in a tiny offshoot of the river in what feels very much like the backyards of some residents of the town. we dinghied jiminny over to a spot to get... yup, you guessed it, ice cream. it's a bit of a funny thing because when we were on the hard we were constantly driving on a long, well used road called "solomons island road," and now here we are. we went around this tiny-tiny little, scrubby, uninhabited island held together on all sides by timbers. the only island around, so we figure it's got to be solomons island. very underwhelming! there must be more to the story than we know.
i hear crickets chirping for the first time on this trip. nice!
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