Tuesday, January 1, 2019

Greetings on this the first day of 2019. 218 is behind us. Upward, tallyho, all that stuff.

We’ve spent the past couple days at the trailer in Delaware, trying to right of a couple decades of abuse and neglect. When you’re talking trailers, a little abuse goes a long way. It’s not like these things are built to withstand the test of time. One good tornado and away they go. Along with the 40 year old collection of Jim Beam commemorative bottles. Forty years ago, some misguided subset of the population thought it was a good idea to own a bottle of low shelf whiskey in the shape of a rainbow trout or a totem pole. Try to find a good home for those bottles now. I’m betting the damn things are cursed and if I throw them away a plague of locusts will descend on my house.

Celebrating the new year, today was a play day doing nothing substantive. Just getting outside and birding. We started the year with over 50 species, without trying too hard and fighting some right powerful winds. Air temperatures in the low 60s made things quite pleasurable. I could really get to like this place.

Looking forward, 2019 promises to be an interesting year. In a few weeks we will be putting our house on the market and essentially becoming homeless. I’ll be spending more time here in Delaware trying to rehab the trailer. Somewhere between the middle of March and early April I’ll be starting the Appalachian Trail. Lise will be in West Lafayette with her mother. When I come off the trail, which could be six months, we’ll figure out where we’re going to spend our last few decades. Or at least our base camp for the last few decades. Just so where ever we end up doesn’t involve a collection of Jim Beam commemorative bottles.

Some cell phone pictures from Cape Henlopen, the point where the Atlantic Ocean and the Delaware Bay meet. I was carrying the scope for birding so I couldn’t carry my camera on a tripod.

At the water’s edge, looking back west at the Cape.

At the point where the Delaware bay and Atlantic Ocean come together. To the left is the Delaware Bay. to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  I personally think this is a pretty cool place.

Looking south along the Atlantic Ocean.