Rickshaw has left the dock! Our departure was a few weeks later than we had hoped but, hey, we are both retired, what else do we have to do? We have learned that living on a boat means that things just break. What worked in the morning doesn't necessarily mean it works in the afternoon. We are told that at any one time there are at least five problems and, hopefully, one knows about two of them! Needless to say, we have been working on some things and updating others!

But all systems are now in working order. We don't have cell phone coverage at the anchorage where we currently are but we DO have wireless thanks to the Verizon air card (amazing what technology brings).

We left Morehead, NC this morning at 9:00 and traveled north 65 nautical miles along the Intra Coastal Waterway (ICW), and are now anchored in the Pungo Creek, just SW of Belhaven, NC. The wine is chilled and we just set up the grill and will be having flank steak and potatoes for our first night out. We plan to spend the next 3 months cruising up the Chesapeake and following the leaves back south in October/November.

We will update this site with info from time to time so that you don't think that we have run aground or dropped off the end of the earth. While this is a blog it was suggested that we don't allow conversations on the site as we would soon be overwhelmed with spam. You have our emails and we hope that you keep in touch. The adventure begins!