Could We Give Up Cruising?

Fairview, MA Public Library
No LL

On the weekend, my sister drove us up to her house in Melrose. Along the way we stopped for lunch at IKEA. Libby and I just love the meal of meatballs, mashed potato and lingonberry that they serve. After eating, of course, we had to walk through the store.

I've bragged before about how liberating it is to own so few things and how we don't need to buy the things in most stores. In IKEA though it is so much fun to shop. It made me think what fun it would be if we quit cruising and had to outfit a whole new home from scratch shopping at IKEA. For that matter, what fun it would be if we were 21 again and starting a new family and a household from scratch.

Then reality set in. Wait, when we were young enough to start from scratch we didn't have any money for anything. Buying new things in a store, even IKEA, was out of the question. And no, we do not want to stop cruising, not even to experience the fun at IKEA.

Back in New Bedford, we met Andre on Aruba II. Andre is a friend we first met on the docks in Jacksonville, then later in the Dismal Swamp, and again in Elizabeth City. Andre straightened us out on Fairhaven. We blogged before on how little we could find of interest in Fairhaven. Well the problem is that we didn't have a guide. Andre let us know that there's plenty of stuff here if you know where to look. Right now, we're at the library and I'm going to show Andre how to create his own blog so that he can write cruising guides about his favorite places like Fairhaven.

p.s. The weather is unfavorable for departure today. Tomorrow we'll sail for Block Island (Sorry Dave Hamby, it seems that we'll miss coming your way once again.)

Libby and Nancy Enjoying The Sail