For those of you who have never been on Ithaka...I am attaching an interior photo (remember, you can click on it to make it bigger).
It really is beginning to feel like home today. Spent the best part of the day cleaning and organizing...settling in. We want to mention what a wonderful experience we had with Skyway Yachtworks. Steve and his crew are awesome...especially Arturo, ace #1 mechanic and employee of the year! The entire team at their facility made the process of going from storage to getting underway easy-squeezy! Anyone thinking of wintering their boat in this area should definitely consider calling them! 773-734-777. We give them top grades!
--Ventured out and found the closest Wal-Mart Supercenter and Ithaka is now loaded down with groceries to last a couple of weeks! We talked to Shelly from the good ship Sunshine this morning and spoke with Bill & Eileen from Blue Max earlier tonight (two of the looper boats we traveled with last summer). We opened the 1st of many bottles of wine tonight...Ithaka's first official happy hour of Leg III! Now, the candles are burning...music is playing ala Jane Monheit...(no TV reception--YAY!)...and we both started a new book: Chip is reading The Shack, and I am reading 700 Sundays)...The weather is absolutely perfect...don't think we'll need to use the AC very often. The rental car goes back tomorrow, so we'll be on our own...no more land lubbing....It's walking shoes and bicycles from this point forward. Art and Sharon called us earlier and we are counting the days till they join us! I may not be blogging when they get here! We "party" a lot when they're around!
~The electronic carp nets are still in place so if we want to get south of Joliet anytime soon we will need a tow...we will be checking on that tomorrow. Last check the cost was over $600 bucks to tow us a mere 7/10's of a mile!!! Yikes! So much for public waterways...but I won't go there. Guess that's cheaper than camping out in Chicago for any length of time (2nd only to NYC for docking fees)...For now, we are happy where we are: Hammond Marina in Indiana, and we cannot believe it has actually been an entire year since last we slept on Ithaka. Sweet dreams all...for us it's "Home Sweet Home"!
It really is beginning to feel like home today. Spent the best part of the day cleaning and organizing...settling in. We want to mention what a wonderful experience we had with Skyway Yachtworks. Steve and his crew are awesome...especially Arturo, ace #1 mechanic and employee of the year! The entire team at their facility made the process of going from storage to getting underway easy-squeezy! Anyone thinking of wintering their boat in this area should definitely consider calling them! 773-734-777. We give them top grades!
--Ventured out and found the closest Wal-Mart Supercenter and Ithaka is now loaded down with groceries to last a couple of weeks! We talked to Shelly from the good ship Sunshine this morning and spoke with Bill & Eileen from Blue Max earlier tonight (two of the looper boats we traveled with last summer). We opened the 1st of many bottles of wine tonight...Ithaka's first official happy hour of Leg III! Now, the candles are burning...music is playing ala Jane Monheit...(no TV reception--YAY!)...and we both started a new book: Chip is reading The Shack, and I am reading 700 Sundays)...The weather is absolutely perfect...don't think we'll need to use the AC very often. The rental car goes back tomorrow, so we'll be on our own...no more land lubbing....It's walking shoes and bicycles from this point forward. Art and Sharon called us earlier and we are counting the days till they join us! I may not be blogging when they get here! We "party" a lot when they're around!
~The electronic carp nets are still in place so if we want to get south of Joliet anytime soon we will need a tow...we will be checking on that tomorrow. Last check the cost was over $600 bucks to tow us a mere 7/10's of a mile!!! Yikes! So much for public waterways...but I won't go there. Guess that's cheaper than camping out in Chicago for any length of time (2nd only to NYC for docking fees)...For now, we are happy where we are: Hammond Marina in Indiana, and we cannot believe it has actually been an entire year since last we slept on Ithaka. Sweet dreams all...for us it's "Home Sweet Home"!
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