Our Story In a Nutshell

In 2003 , we began our labor of love and started to restore our CSY 44 sailboat,which we named Freedom. After 5 1/2 years of pure sweat, (Florida in July in a t-vac suit and full mask)some tears, endless reading and lots of leaps of faith, restoration was completed in January 2009. The rest of the story is unraveling as we learn to become the sailors we have always read about. Their inspiration has always lead us to new places...the real reson we started this adventure to begin with. We left from St. Petersburg, Florida in January 2009, sailed to Longboat key, then Useppa, St. James City, Cape Coral, Marathon, Rodriguez Key, Miami, then onto the Bahamas. In the Bahamas we sailed to Norman's Key, Shroud, Hawksbill, Warderick Wells, Black Point, Staniel Key, Spanish wells, Eleuthera, Little Harbor, Marsh harbor and then over to Beaufort North Carolina...up the ICW to Norfolk and finally we ended up in the Chesapeake Bay.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Santa Fe Scenery




The great thing about traveling to new places is all the wonderful new sights you get to see. The Santa Fe area has it all. Delicious food, beautiful adobe architecture and this time of year, gorgeous skies and flowers. We drove up to Taos, at about 8,000 elevation. There is a gorge with a bridge that you can drive over, about 10 miles outside Taos. It is a mini Grand Canyon. The view is breathtaking...you can see forever out in the desert. My fear of heights was definitely working against me as we walked over the bridge...its about 650 feet above the Rio Grande River.See Pics. Then we drove back to santa Fe and took in some of the museums in the Plaza area. The adobe architecture is so different from anything out East. The brick colors against the backdrop of the blue skies is memorable. See pics..The holyhocks, cactus and wild flowers are all blooming right now. It is hard to believe how cold this place gets in winter...We visited the Georgia O'Keefe museum. Her artwork is incredible...it is so simple yet incredibly colorful. It is great to view the Santa Fe scenery through her eyes...WOW!
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Bob and Kitty said...

BEAUTIFUL pictures, guys. It looks so COOL there. Ahhhh, coool. We forget what that's like.

July 26, 2009 at 9:12 AM

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