Once a boat guy, always a boat guy. Even though I have 'moved away from the maritime industry' as people put it when introducing me to others who didn't, I'm still a boat guy at heart and would love to drive four hours to Connecticut to see The Woodenboat Show at Mystic Seaport.
So that's what we did this weekend. We saw and stayed with Nick and Bonnie at their place, getting miraculously lucky with NYC traffic and arriving in time for sangria and a nice evening. Saturday we saw the boats made of wood, old and new, and quite a bit of Nick's handywork on display in the museum's exhibits.
After we'd seen the sights and taken enough digital photos for Nick to (maybe) create a (hypothetical) future (possible) addition to the vintage transportation room, we visited Mystic proper. We stopped at a posh bar for a round and then went home, where we enjoyed a dip in the neighbors pool and a luxurious dinner off the grill. Sunday we visited the
USS Nautilus museum in Groton and departed for points west, along the beautiful Merritt Parkway and through scenic northern NJ with a stop for a very authentic Mexican lunch.
Monday, June 30, 2008