Corn, corn and more corn

We covered a bunch of states today.  Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Connecticut.   

Corn, corn and more corn.  There are just fields and fields as far as the eye can see.  The southern part of the trip was mostly looking at corn fields and BIG barns.  I don’t know why gas prices are going up.  ($3.95 for regular here)  There is enough corn on I81 to fill all the gas tanks in New England.  We followed I81 north and then hit I84 East to miss the Big Apple.  I didn’t want to spend a couple of hours in bumper to bumper traffic in New York City.  I spent one hour on the George Washington Bridge in 1976 and swore I would never do that again. 

I81 takes you in to the mountains north of New York.  It is a nice drive with lots of scenic vistas over some very nice valleys.  Of course you get to look at a lot of trees at 65 mph.  Yea they don’t drive as fast as we do.  Of course it would have been good to maintain 65.  Every few miles all along the path there were construction zones with double fines and speeds down to 45 mph.  Traffic really built up north of New York and drivers got more aggressive.

Danbury, Ct is a nice area.  Traffic is not conducive to cruising around town.  Tomorrow it will be on to Rockland to the Maine Boats, Homes & Harbors Show.  I am looking forward to the show.  Our story is going to be we have been sailing our 55 ft boat (well if you add the davits and the anchor off the front you can almost get there) and we are thinking about changing to a boat to do the inland water ways.  That should get us a good tour of the Hinckley’s, Morris’s and Saber’s.  I working on some intelligent questions to ask so they will think I know what I am talking about.  In case you don’t know “how many miles per gallon” isn’t a question that will get you on board the boat.  A few years ago I went to a boat show and was really interested in a $1,200,000 boat; I offered the guy $850,000 cash if he could have it ready to go in two weeks.  You should have seen the expression; he was looking for a contract.  Actually my boat neighbor has me on a mission to find him a good Saber in the mid 40 foot range to bring back to Pensacola. 

We have a couple of boat buddies from Pensacola that are going to meet us in Rockland on their boats.  It will be good to see them and share a meal.  Hopefully we will get to do a little sailing with them while we are up here.