Below are links to Google Maps of our location, links to marinas if applicable and links to Kem's blog on the Houston Chronicle. Most recent event on top.

Tentative Plans

October 27, 2010

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October, 25, 2010

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Olverson's Lodge Creek Marina Freddy and Cas know how to take care of their guests.

This is our last marina on the Potomac River.

Today we're at Dozier's Regatta Point marina for a couple nights to let the weather pass and then we're working our way downstream to New Bern

October 24, 2010

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Belmont Bay Harbor

Reminds me of Georgetown with no businesses.

October 5, 2010

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Gangplank Marina - downtown DC just off the Capital Mall.

"SCULPTURE GARDEN" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " We have been in DC for over two weeks and have seen more sights than most folks who live here. The great thing about DC is that it’s all free! Yes, there are a few museums and buildings that ch... "

"OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Nowhere else in America is tradition as strong and visible as within the Supreme Court of the United States. From the black robed Justices coming through the red velvet drapes, to the crier saying, &... "

"OVO" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " We had initially planned to dock our boat at National Harbor while in DC because there is so much going on there – a mini Woodlands with a Gaylord Grand Hotel. We decided not to stay there this... "

"WHITE HOUSE GARDEN TOUR" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " There is only one President who didn’t have the opportunity to live in the White House, and that was George Washington. He died before its completion. His successor, John Adams, moved in with h... "

• Movie - Lots of people enjoyed the White House Garden Tours.
• Movie - Music added the right feeling to the event.

"RAINY DAY VISIT" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Today was a rainy day – the first we’ve had since we’ve been here, so we can’t complain.   It was a great day for a visit from Tom, a longtime friend and avid boater. Tom... "

"KENNEDY CENTER" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " In this city of concrete and marble statues, the Kennedy Center is a vibrant, living memorial to the life of slain President John F. Kennedy. At the center of DC’s cultural life, this center fo... "

"TURTLE WOMEN RISING" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " As we were walking the Mall we happened upon a grouping of Tipis around a sacred fire with drumming and soft chanting. We found out that it was a gathering for global peace and a prayer vigil for the... "

"BUMBLEBEE GETS STUNG"View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Well, we were out on our daily walk-about, touring museums and the sights of DC when all of a sudden we were caught in a real-life movie scenario! Our friend Peggi had warned us that they would be sh... "

YouTube Video of the Crash

"MEMORIAL MALL" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " The world famous Washington Mall is lined with Memorials to those who have shaped our country, both in peace and in war. We selected a postcard perfect Sunday to walk this tour, and at a time when mo... "

"THE CATHEDRAL" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Part of Pierre L’Enfant’s design for Washington, DC, was a church, “intended for national purposes, such as public prayer, thanksgiving, and funeral orations. And assigned to the sp... "

Movie - Just as Patty opened the door the organist started playing.

"CHANGING OF THE GUARD" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Across the Potomac River, on 1000 rolling green acres of Virginia, lie the remains of Presidents John F. Kennedy, William Howard Taft and over 320,000 servicemen and women who fought at home and abro... "

Changing of the Guard for the Unknown Soldier

1. Movie - Announcement
2. Movie - Inspection
3. Movie - Change

"FRIENDS & FAMILY" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " There is no better way to start the day than to get a call from friends. The phone rang, I answered, and the voice on the end of the line said, “Where are you?” I replied, “Docked a... "

"FLYING HIGH" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " After our tour of The Castle, we were on a “museum roll” and moved on up the Washington Mall to the Air & Space Museum. There are few overt public political statements in the city, so... "

"READ MY PIN" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " The Smithsonian Institution Building, AKA, The Castle came about due to the generosity of James Smithson, an Englishman who bequeathed $500,000 to the US for the founding in Washington an establishme... "

"CAPITOL HILL PRIVATE TOUR" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Our nation’s Capitol Building is built on a hill which the Eighteenth Century planner, Pierre L’Enfant, described as “a pedestal waiting for a monument” and that’s just ...

• Video: Senators' basement bathtubs
• Video: Basement passageways
• Video: Mural of American History on Capital Rotunda

"WALKING THE GANGPLANK" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " We are comfortably docked at the Gangplank Marina, and couldn’t be in a better place. We are surrounded by live-aboards, and many have been here for 5 plus years. Most of them live aboard their... "

DC BY WAY OF POTOMAC" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " Bob and I have been to our nation’s capital many times, usually by flying in, occasionally by driving. Never before have we felt this thrill of arriving by water on our own boat. It is tru... "

October 3, 2010

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"WEATHER WARNINGS" View and comment on the post.

Excerpt: " What a difference a day makes! There was literally 24 hours of good weather between back-to-back tropical depressions that inundated the Atlantic seaboard with more rain than the coastal ar... "

October 2, 2010

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