{"id":1207,"date":"2017-10-06T01:43:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T01:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2017-10-06T01:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T01:43:16","slug":"taking-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/2017\/10\/taking-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a break"},"content":{"rendered":"

How do you survive a summer in Virginia? Easy, you just go somewhere else. There was no consensus whether the heat, the humidity, or the mosquitoes were worse, but when you start thinking of laxatives so that you can spend more time in the boatyard’s air-conditioned restrooms… then it’s patently clear that mid summer in the Chesapeake Bay was not the best time to do boat work. After a week in that inferno, far from any shade, sea breeze or the cooling effect of water, you start hating everybody, including your formerly lovely spouse, especially if you spend any time together tidying stuff up inside a greenhouse-like cockpit.<\/p>\n

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Full moon at the Deltaville boatyard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was time to abandon ship. Temporarily, that is. We put Oliver and some underwear in a suitcase (ok, two separate suitcases), closed the boat up, and enjoyed a little vacation in California with friends and daughters, which included a side trip to East Oregon to meet the solar eclipse’s path of totality.<\/p>\n

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Solarfest, the day before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The night before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The hour before<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Ta-da… The magnificent event! A whopping two minutes long. The 10-hour drive and two-day wait was well worth it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A side trip’s side trip to Washington<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The spectacular Sonoma Coast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We did endure a couple of 111\u00b0F\/44\u00b0C days in Sonoma County, but as long as there was some shade and not many mosquitos, it was manageable.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A mountain of squash in the National Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Californian daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To be on the safe side, we came back to Virginia two days after the official end of the summer. In the end the only casualty of our Virginian summer was my crocs. I now have to buy new shoes because the crocs I left in the cockpit got permanently shrank and deformed by the heat.<\/p>\n

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I wish I could say this was a heroic result of my hazardous life at sea. Nah, it was just a dog bite. A perfectly avoidable one, miles from the sea.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How do you survive a summer in Virginia? Easy, you just go somewhere else. There was no consensus whether the heat, the humidity, or the mosquitoes were worse, but when you start thinking of laxatives so that you can spend more time in the boatyard’s air-conditioned restrooms… then it’s patently clear that mid summer in … Continue reading “Taking a break”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7GCAo-jt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nandu.world\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}