The madness of attempting to re-invent myself has passed. Just consider it a midlife cri…, well, make that 7/8 life, crisis. There is a lot of opportunity in DC, just as my friends suggested but there is also a lot of competition from bright young people willing to work for free to get a foot on the ladder. I’m sure I would find something if I were willing to spend a few months looking. However, once the thrill of being back in an urban environment wore off, I realized that I am just not a city guy, even with it tempered by living on a boat.
If I am going to make the money to undertake more ambitious cruises, it’s more likely to come from building on my past than attempting something new. There are some promising things in the wind but they will probably be drawing me back towards New England in May.
So, I am sitting here at my undisclosed location ready to move back down the river as soon as the weather permits. It wouldn’t be a lot more rugged to do that immediately than what I encountered on the trip up but I was driven then by the desire to get to DC in time to spend time with my son while he was doing his January internship on Capitol Hill. Now that I have the tee shirt for winter cruising, including freezing rain, boredom and restlessness don’t seem sufficient reason to put myself through more of it. I’m hoping that is a warming trend I see at the edge of the long range forecasts and I’ll be posting again sometime next week.
I’ve got the SPOT working again although I’m not sure how long pushing the button with a chopstick is going to last. I’ll get a new tracking page set up before I leave and update the link in my signature file and on my web site.
I’m thinking about ducking down into North Carolina again via a Dismal Swamp and Coinjock route circumnavigation with a side trip up Albemarle Sound past Elizabeth City. That plan will depend a lot on how March shapes up weather wise. By April, I hope to be reporting on some of the places I haven’t seen in Chesapeake Bay yet.
Stay tuned, Strider will soon be on the move again.
If I am going to make the money to undertake more ambitious cruises, it’s more likely to come from building on my past than attempting something new. There are some promising things in the wind but they will probably be drawing me back towards New England in May.
So, I am sitting here at my undisclosed location ready to move back down the river as soon as the weather permits. It wouldn’t be a lot more rugged to do that immediately than what I encountered on the trip up but I was driven then by the desire to get to DC in time to spend time with my son while he was doing his January internship on Capitol Hill. Now that I have the tee shirt for winter cruising, including freezing rain, boredom and restlessness don’t seem sufficient reason to put myself through more of it. I’m hoping that is a warming trend I see at the edge of the long range forecasts and I’ll be posting again sometime next week.
I’ve got the SPOT working again although I’m not sure how long pushing the button with a chopstick is going to last. I’ll get a new tracking page set up before I leave and update the link in my signature file and on my web site.
I’m thinking about ducking down into North Carolina again via a Dismal Swamp and Coinjock route circumnavigation with a side trip up Albemarle Sound past Elizabeth City. That plan will depend a lot on how March shapes up weather wise. By April, I hope to be reporting on some of the places I haven’t seen in Chesapeake Bay yet.
Stay tuned, Strider will soon be on the move again.
