This morning, Thursday. July 26, 2012.  Found me helping load up guns and tools to go to auction. The guns were hunting rifles that I had worked on and some worked on by friends. I may have shipped off the last gun I will ever completely redo myself. I didn't even take a picture.
  I know I have to get rid of the things that will get ruined if kept in storage. I have mixed emotions about some of these things. It seems to be rather costly to trade one life for another. not in just a monetary way but letting go of things that once meant something as they will not fit with the new life.

 The people at uhaul have been most friendly and helpful. They have even been great about letting me stand around office cooling down.  I hope I don't get in the way too much. Not everyone was here for picture day but I meant well.

   I am going to be busy today and tomorrow finding lost chart books, finding bedding and other things that need to get to boat. I have today and tomorrow. I head for boat on greyhound Saturday at noon-thirty. Will arrive in Baltimore at 7:30 am. on Monday. I am anxious to see friends at tidewater yachts. I like the folks working there. I find them to be regular down to earth people like all the other people I like.
  I can not wait to get out on boat. I have about a week worth of work to do and the day Mary Lee splashes down I am pulling out. This is what I am trading the old life for. I notice when I am thinking of boat the other things I am going through to get there don't seem to matter.

  I will be back to Corpus Christi to finish up storage unit and do a few last minute things in December or so.

  I think I may change plans for the next season. I want to go back up the intracoastal and spend early spring in the Chesapeke. From there I want to make my way to Maine. I would like to try my hand at lobster eating and just sight-seeing the Maine coast. Once I head back south, I should have boat well tested and set up the way I want by this time, I want to make my way to the Carribean. Of course all plans are subject to change if I want. I just need to have a vague idea of what I want to do.
  Have to remember not to carry windlasses in duffle bags. Back is still giving me trouble from that. It is now on day 3 of wishing I was smart enough not to do bonehead things.