Solomon’s, MD

After being away for 3 weeks, we were happy to resume our cruise on Monday, August 9.  During our time away we had driven back to South Florida where we successfully packed up Jonny’s mom’s apartment and put her things in storage since she is staying at his brother Andy’s home while we are cruising.  We had to put on PPE while we were in Janice’s senior living facility which was pretty crazy!

We brought Janice back with us to Miami for the few days we were there.  It was nice being in our comfortable Miami condo but Covid was raging in South Florida so we had to be very careful.  We actually had to make an appointment to use the pool in our condo!

After a week in Miami we drove north (safely) visiting Natalie and Alex in Jacksonville and Cathy in Davidson, NC on our way back to Zendo which had remained docked at our marina in in Kinsale, VA.  

Our original plan was to cruise up to Philly to visit Stephanie. But Hurricane Isaias put a damper on that plan.  It was heading up the east coast so we had to scramble to prepare Zendo in case it hit us on the Chesapeake.  We spent 5 hours taking  down the bimini and Stratoglass and moving to a safer location at the marina. Of course, because of our careful preparations, the storm  wasn’t that bad. Better safe than sorry!  But because of those lost days we decided to drive to Philly instead which afforded us the opportunity to stop for lunch in Alexandria and visit our friends, Greg and Lynda which was a treat. We spent a long weekend with Stephanie and had a great time with her and Ryan walking all over the city, having some terrific meals and generally hanging out with our favorite daughter and her boyfriend, Ryan!

The delay also provided another chance to visit with our cruising friends, Liz and Steve, before our planned departure. Unfortunately, our air conditioner never got fixed so we decided to wait until we got to Baltimore where Jonny has faith that a fellow MTOA member there is lined up to help us. Luckily we still have AC in our cabins but the main saloon and galley gets beastly hot as the temperatures are close to 90 degrees and very humid.

So we finally took off on a beautiful sunny day by 9 a.m. for a 5 hour cruise to the Solomon’s.  We figured we would take two days to get to Baltimore and our second stop would be in Annapolis.  We cruised down the wide Potomac River and headed north on the Chesapeake.  It was perfect cruising weather, sunny, not much wind and very little boat traffic.

We arrived at Calvert’s Marina in Solomon’s Island about 2 p.m. and docked behind a big Nordhaven.  

By this time it was very hot and we cooled off by reading in our aft cabin with the AC blasting.  Later on we walked over to their nice big pool which fortunately was deep enough to have refreshingly cool water.

That evening we had had a light dinner on the aft deck and caught up with our family members by phone.  We then split up and separately watched our own forms of television entertainment!