Ok finally I am going to write another post! I need to keep up on this a bit better. And by “need” I don’t mean “need” at all.

Anyway, I think I’ve finished uploading all of the pictures from the sailing trip. The set (which I will try not to duplicate in this post) is here, nice and chronologically organized. I’m still tagging everything, and adding some titles/descriptions here and there. It’s a tedious process. I made a tour of the trip in Google Earth and was all ready to export it as a movie, but it turns out you need Google Earth Pro to do that. Absolutely sucks. So all I have for you is pictures, for now. I took a few movies with my camera which I need to edit (down to 90 seconds) and then put on Flickr. That should follow soon enough.

The trip began last Friday. I had taken a full week off of work for both the sailing trip and a little additional vacation time to visit my family in CT. My flight was out of SFO at about 10:00 pm Thursday night. I landed in New York at 6 am and, after waiting forever at the gate and bag claim, I made my way to Brooklyn. I do not like red-eyes.

We were all scheduled to meet in Greenport, NY, at the eastern tip of Long Island. The ferry there would take us to Dering Harbor on Shelter Island where our boat was docked. Pete, Keith, Ian and I took the Long Island Railroad from Brooklyn. Somewhere along the line of our 3 separate transfers, the train stopped. We were told that there was a fatality somewhere down the line - someone had walked across the train tracks and was killed. Ultimately, we missed our last connection and had to take a bus for the last hour or so. Totally crappy. But, it made for a good opportunity to run to the nearest 7-11 for a 6-pack. Yay.

The first day (evening) was spent mulling about Shelter Island. We set up camp on the boat and had dinner at the Dory Restaurant. Also we stocked up on some food supplies for the trip the following morning which began bright and early. There was no set destination, we were just sailing east. It was eventually decided to head towards Block Island. Some of us had never been and for the others it had been a while.

The town was quite nice. There was a microbrewery that had a very tasty IPA and two ice cream places that were a little disappointing. We were docked onto a mooring which was good for a cool breeze at night, but bad for a $3 one-way launch ride into and out of town. I slept outside for the second night in a row.

We sailed around some more and made our way to Stonington, CT. There’s some historic story associated with the town and Cannon Square. I don’t plan on trying to write it here. Check Wikipedia.

Then, after sailing and more sailing, we stayed in Mystic Connecticut, home of the famous Mystic Pizza. I dunno, they made a movie about it. Julia Roberts was in it. Anyway. There was also a bunch of boat-related things which was fun to walk through. Also, I got the new Chuck Palahniuk book. I suck at writing recaps.

Anyway, that’s all I’m going to do for this thing. After the sailing trip, I visited my family in Fairfield (minus my brother, who is currently in Alaska). It was a lot of fun, and very very hot. The end.

PS, the title is an inside “joke” from those of us that were on the sailing trip 3 years ago.