The final steps ....

On Friday, a beautiful fall day, we learned that we could haul out our boat at Kingston Marine. This is a small shipyard, which offered us the opportunity to sandblast our bottom in the coming Spring. La Buena Vida needs it! It has been more than 12 years she got her bottom done.

And yes, a new paint job above the waterline would look good on her too.

We still feel more "at home" on board, than in our house. But this is just a question of time - the temperatures are dropping steadily, the fire place is going most evenings. Yes, we are moving towards winter.

We had 2 great years on board of our boat; it feels like a dream.

But after we are settled, and LBV put away for the winter, we will start to make new travel plans. We already have an invitation to go to Italy next summer - Uwe's birthday! We will not miss this one! But will have to bridge our time until then with other adventures.