And so our adventure on the Great Loop begins! Special thanks to Tricia and Chris Chitterling for hosting a great send off from the beach and to the Steinwegs and Chapmans for their help in a great breakfast buffet. We pulled away from our pier right on time at 12:00 pm on 5/19/2023. Thank you to all of our wonderful neighbors and friends who came out to see us off and to Peter and Carolyn Hiskey for their blessings and prayers of send off. We headed over to Eagle Cove with the AYC cruising fleet for a couple days, then will go to downtown Annapolis for a couple days where we will also take in the Blue Angels Air show on the Severn River to celebrate the Naval Academy Graduation. Our final departure from MD, headed to CT to visit family, will be 5/25. Planned arrival in CT is 6/1 and departure 6/5. Don’t think we’ll feel like we are really “on the loop” until we depart CT and head into waters and ports we’ve not navigated before. It’s good to start with confidence of the familiar as we then depart for the unknown! Let the adventure begin!
Pat Raico
So happy for you two! Safe travels!