Weekend

What a Saturday!
Breakfast at Wimbledon. Got to watch the Williams sisters play. Breakfast in bed in fact(bedroom television in the motorhome).

Some yard puttering. Two hours of racquetball. A picnic. And the afternoon/evening at the lake windsurfing.

The conditions were perfect. My primary sail is in for repair, but that leaves me with a great big light wind sail, and a small storm sail. The winds were light and steady. Lake Union is a no-wake-lake(no water-skiing), so the surface was smooth. I got to use the big sail and not get overpowered. Perfect conditions to rediscover my balance on the board.

The winds did shift a little as the evening wore on. On my last sail, I sailed out on a starboard tack, sailed around on the lake, then sailed back on the exact reverse of the course I sailed out on, and sailed back, also on a starboard tack.



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Wednesday. We’re off again. We drove off in a light rain. We decided to leave the night before. We got all of a hundred miles before we stopped for the night. Not wanting to be left out of the adventures of our brothers, we stopped for the night at a Wal-Mart. Now we’ve racked up that cultural experience. There were several other motorhomes there, but nobody came out to play or talk with us. I had a nice big loop for my evening run. Patrolled by security. I’ve played hard at racquetball lately, and my legs are pretty dead. We got to listen to rain on the roof all night long. We got a new bed. In the process, we figured out that the guy who had this rig before us had substituted a full queen mattress for the short queen mattress the platform was designed for. I’m not that big a guy, so the short queen length ought to be just fine. It’s as long as a double bed. Since we got the new mattress in, it is remarkable how much more walk-around room we have around the bed. It really is a walk around. I have a question. How can it be 35% humididy while it’s raining?