The 2019 cruising season officially kicked off on the weekend of August 3 when Lynn and Stephanie joined Jonny aboard Zendo at Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City. For the past three weeks Jonny had been traveling solo from Zendo’s winter berth at Olverson’s Marina on the Chesapeake north. Lynn was stuck in Miami overseeing the final renovations of the recently purchased condo there. After flying to Philadelphia and staying at Stephanie’s, we finally joined Jonny in Jersey City where we had a celebratory dinner at a good Italian restaurant. Not only were we celebrating being together and the start of a family vacation, but we also toasted Stephanie’s brand new job (still at Aramark) and promotion to General Manager!
We will have a week together cruising Long Island Sound and culminating in Jonny’s family reunion in New London.
We left Liberty Landing at 9 a.m. on Sunday, August 4 for a gorgeous cruise up the East River
passing many of NYC’s iconic landmarks.
From there we headed over to Oyster Bay on Long Island where we originally intended to visit Sagamore Hill, Theodore Roosevelt’s home. Unfortunately, we were late arriving and the tickets were sold out for the day, but we made the best of it at a lovely anchorage surrounded by hundreds of sailboats.
We swam and paddle boarded to our hearts’ content. So relaxing!
Afterwards we dinghied over to the village of Oyster Bay and found our first brew pub of the trip followed by a dinner of some of our favorite foods - clam chowder, steamers, fried oysters and crab
cakes.
We managed to miss a rain shower and returned to Zendo for a relaxing evening of Scrabble on the
aft deck surrounded by a beautiful sunset. What a great way to start our official summer cruise season!
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