On the Road With Larry and Jo: Catching up again!!!!!!!!!

1. The tall ship for rent

2. The Charles W. Morgan

3. Old lobster boat

4. Pretty boat

October 23, Thursday As you can see, again, I am slightly behind. However, since we are sitting in the driver's lounge of a transmission shop, I have time to maybe catch up on a few days. Yep, we arrived in Albuquerque,NM with transmission problems. Thank goodness Larry was able to get to here because there really is not that much out here. In fact, the cell phone has not worked for about 5 days. we are having to deadhead home because of renter problems. Not quite the leisure trip back East. .....September 19, Friday: Larry took Sobaka to a very nice Vet here in town to have his stitches removed. She didn't even charge us and said to keep up the good work because he looks very good for his age. We should all be sooooo lucky!!!!!

Off to explore the Mystic Seaport Museum located on the Mystic river. This museum is a little smaller than the Sturbridge Village or Shelburne Museum. Piece of cake it is only 17 acres on the waterfront. While we went through historic houses, old restored ship, shops, and trade buildings, we managed to traverse all and then some of the 17 acres. The have a preservation shipyard where you can walk on the catwalk to watch them work. The shipyard is home to three tall ships of which Joseph Conrad has been restored, the L.A. Dunton is in dry dock now being finished. Plans are in late 2008 to start restoring the Charles W. Morgan. This ship was one of the last wooden whaling ships. Exploring all of these ships was very interesting and realizing the life they used to have. Surprising on the Charles W. Morgan several of the captain's families traveled with them on their voyages. Going down to the belly of the whaling ship was very very tight. Interesting to see how much work they could do in a limited space. There was a restored 1908 steamboat which you could cruise the river. Also, a 3 or 5 day cruise on a 170ft three mast tall ship. All in all a very interesting walk through an old -time seaport village.