Day 2, Year 1: Stay Over in Quissett Harbor
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Weather: Strong Winds from the South
Location: Quissett Harbor (Cape Cod), Massachusetts–USA

It is evening and here we still sit in the Quissett Harbor on the Cape. The winds are strong and from the wrong direction, so we decided to sit it out today and leave for Cape May, New Jersey, early in the morning. Hurricane Wilma is trying to complicate things as well, but if we leave here tomorrow morning we will reach the Chesapeake Bay well before Wilma. We can find a safe haven there and wait for any effects of this hurricane to pass.

Today was spent cataloging and storing away items that had not been dealt with before leaving Boston. Finding just the right place for all of the different food supplies is quite challenging, but we made great headway today. In fact, the only things left to do are to go through all of the cards and gifts we received in the past couple of weeks and send loads of thank you’s to so many friends. If the weather permits, we will get to go through those things tomorrow and will finally feel like we are ready to embark on this voyage.

The other thing that took a great deal of our day today was pouring through the weather reports trying to figure out when, where, and how to head south. The weather definitely dictates our travels and learning to read the various reports is most challenging. Now we know why the weather people often get it wrong. Things change from hour to hour and not all reports give you the same information. If we have it right, we will reach Chesapeake City in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal on Saturday evening. That will probably be the next time that we will send a travel log. Until then . . .