A Record?

An Old Couple (of what?) With Their Little Dog

Happy birthday to Dwight, celebrating his 79th birthday this merry month of May. In September I will celebrate my three-quarters-of-a-century birthday. Does that make us officially old? Despite our ages, I fervently hope we never hear ourselves referred to as being spry.  We are much too big to be spry.

Does anyone know of a couple older than we are who still float around the European canals in their own boat?  If so, we sure would like to meet them. If not, we are contacting the Guinness Book of Records.

Our bags are almost ready to be zipped up for our return to Echooooo and, this year, we are looking forward to getting back to the boat. We haven't decided where we will go but an itinerary is bound to turn up if we chat with enough people about canal and river conditions. 

We would like to stick to the smaller, less traveled canals, though. We've had enough of big rivers with big traffic. A quiet country mooring where Yogi-dog can feel free to use our passerelle when he wants would be perfect. Throw in a few morning songs from les oiseaux, a nearby grocery store for Dwight and some electricity for my sewing machine and we would be happy campers.    

We just might find it. Stay tuned and we'll let you know when we do.

Momentarily off the subject of boats, here are a couple of links to web sites which tickled our fancy when we weren't thinking in a marinely manner over the winter.  

The first is a highly inventive way of reusing those ubiquitous 1 liter plastic bottles.  Genius!

http://www.isanglitrongliwanag.org

And not to be outdone, Volkswagen sponsored a nifty little contest with such a terrific theme that you just gotta' love that company and their cars.

http://www.thefuntheory.com/