September 27, 2003
Chesapeake City, Maryland

Neal, our new friend who was so generous with all the advise and chart kits he gave us was expecting to see his daughter and said that probably no one would mind if we docked here for one more day. So we did. This guy was just the nicest person you could meet and I was hoping we could hook up wit him and sail down together for a few days. Unfortunately he wasn't planning to go down to Baltimore like we would so after spending some time shopping and chatting we said good byes with our hope to see him again on our way south. And we couldn't convince his daughter to be our shore crew and drive around with her car from port to port. Neal had a good chuckle at this.

Just before we went to bed couple of gents rolled in and we had this amazing chat. I mean these guys were so excited for us to do this trip they were going to buy us detailed charts of Chesapeake Bay and one, I think his name was Bill, the accountant was seriously considering to drop his work for a week and tug along with us in his sailboat which was in Baltimore. We connected with these guys so well that they provided us with their phone numbers and urged us to sail down to Baltimore Yacht Club to meet them there. We gladly accepted the invite since without the dinghy we are kind of stranded to our boat unless some free dock comes along.

We just had the best time here with all these supernice people. We felt so much better being able to speak to somebody else and socialize a bit. For us it made so much difference and our moods were instantaneously lifted.

(M)