It has taken me 28 months to return to this blog - I opened it in March, 2009, and now it's August 2011. I didn't even remember creating it, but found it here on the internet when I decided to start writing a blog!

Twelve days from now, I will be leaving my home port of Portland, Oregon and sailing down the Columbia River to Astoria. We are going to cross the Columbia River Bar, and then turn left and head for warmer waters! I'm told that, even now in the height of summer, the warmer water is a long ways away and to be sure and take my foul weather gear.

Last April, I joined a crew to help a friend move her Hunter 356 sailboat from Bellingham, Washington to Portland. As a result of that delivery, I was asked to join Ed and Teri in taking their boat to Mexico and to spend the winter with them down there, cruising. I intend to write to this blog regularly as a means of developing my writing skills and to let my friends follow my progress.