Great Friends

A good friend is one who will drive an hour and a half to pick you up and this is what Jennifer did for us. We recently enjoyed a lovely stay with our friends Jennifer and Kane and their five year old twins, Kate and William. It made a nice change from the boat for a few days and to sleep in a real bed and be driven around all of the Nakahara’s favourite places, including a visit to Milky Way Farm for home-made ice cream was great. The Nakahara’s live in a beautiful, heavily wooded and historic corner of Pennsylvania where wild deer frequent the garden which is also home to woodpeckers, bluejays, chipmunks and squirrels. It is a special treat to stay in the home of friends and this was a lovely visit for us.



Happy hour on the Hudson:

We are lucky to have also found new friends in America as we have travelled. Boating people are wonderful people who share common interests and work to help each other out every day. People have been so generous with their time, resources and friendship. We did receive an exceptionally warm welcome this week, as we arrived at the dock of the Castleton on Hudson Boat Club. A large group was standing on the dock shouting “welcome” and “you made it!” which was great except that we couldn’t remember where we had met these folks before. We tied up and completed the paperwork and then went to say “hello” to the ‘welcoming party’. The group, by this time, had realized that we weren’t the friends that they thought they were waving to but they explained this to us over several cold beers and by the time we left we were like old friends anyway.