Cruising the Waterways

Hi to all and welcome aboard.We are Pam and Tom Frech from Barrington Illinois, and we hope to carry you with us aboard "Cloud Nine" our Island Gypsy 44' trawler, as we cruise The Great Loop (a circumnavigation of the mid-west and Eastern United States.The journey begins on Sept 18th 2006 from Chicago,Illinois!

Monday, September 17, 2007

Happy Anniversary

Well, tomorrow, Tuesday, Sept 18th marks the one year anniversary of our departure from Chicago! What a year Tom and I have had. Thank you to all of you who have been riding along with us! Your interest and comments have encouraged me to keep "blogging". We've learned so much this year, and feel very fortunate to have had this experience. To any of you out there who are on the fence about making a move, or doing something special in your lives...just do it.
The rewards are so rich!

We will be leaving the boat in Deltaville, Virginia until next April when we resume the trip. Until then, we will return to our home in Chicago where I'll pick up my keys, lock box and contracts and resume being a realtor. Until then I won't be writing this blog regularly, but will make some entries from time to time.

If you have any questions about the trip so far, please e-mail me at pamfrech@ameritech.net
I'll leave you with a few last postings over the next few days. We're currently in Williamsburg Virginia where we've now spent three solid days touring...if you haven't been to this area and are looking for a great place to be belly to belly with living American history...come here..it's amazing...until later
cheers

Loop Pictures




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Monday, September 10, 2007

pictures,pictures,pictures

Just thought I'd fill in the blanks with some pictures taken over the last month. We're currently en route to the York River, just north of Norfolk, where we'll pick up our friends Rosemary and Rob Redmond. They don't know it, but they're in for a treat because Tom and I have learned how to catch crabs (not the scratchy, crawly kind) the kind that come from the sea....we're going to make our own crab cakes tonight...we're using steak for bait....enjoy the pics!

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