A Typical Morning

A typical morning:

The group with which we are traveling are very compatible, friendly and interesting. As a team we must do our best to stay together, leave together, and eat together. There are 16 passengers and essentially 5 crew, human behavior at times does come into play.

Each evening one of the crew gives a short dissortation on the next day’s activities, it generally is a reminder that we will be leaving at 8:59, initially I though this was due to moorage fees but in fact the skipper wants to make sure he is through the major locks before noon, as everyone in this country takes off at least an hour until 1 pm. If he misses a lock he will be delayed by at least 1 hour.

This morning, breakfast at 0800 as usual, all those cycling were ready to go by 8:40.

The skipper backed out of the mooring at 8:57, Gary Reeves came out of the can at 8:58. We pulled gently back into port and were off.

A few moments later there was an anxious inquiry from shore, yes indeed a saddle bag was still on board. Brian’s bag safely tucked next to Carol’s chair. Some quick thinking by Scott who rode a bike along the shore an received a perfect throw from Marjorie, the time was 9:02, we were now ready to go !

Mcguire does have forgetful moments, the reader may remember the sunglasses affair when playing at pumpkin Ridge he became quite concerned as he could not find his glasses and assume he had dropped or left them somewhere. His usual Cheshire grin turned sheepish when he was informed that he was wearing them!

Earlier this week, he insisted that sunglasses he was wearing were his, not Butlers as Peter was claiming. Only after Peter identified Brian’s glasses and presented them to him was he able to extract his glasses from Brian !! Fortunately our bikes have unique numbers to be easily identified without controversy.