False Start.

We drove all the way to Whittier yesterday for our big trip in Prince William Sound. After a very delayed start, a trip to a congested grocery store along the way, a three hour drive, and a hectic boat ramp, we got our boat launched in the Whittier harbor and we were on our way....for about 30 seconds. The hydraulics line had been pinched in the motor during the drive, causing a hole to form and causing us to have no steering in the harbor.

It was 8:30 on the Friday night of the 4th of July weekend, would we be able to get someone to fix this problem? I asked the Harbor Master this question.

"Well, people here work pretty weird hours," he said. No kidding. The liquor store in town is open for about 15 minutes a day. Seriously. They open at 5 p.m. and stay open until the crowd of people are gone. Then they close. That's it until tomorrow at 5 p.m. We called around boat repair shops and it turned out that no one's 15 minutes of being open coordinated with our boat repair at 8:30. Back home we went.

During the 7 hours traveling I had time to notice this on the interior of the car:



For Leo's background in writing on our walls, scroll down last month's posts. I said to him, "Leo, I see you wrote your name in our car." And he said, "No, that says Lee. Someone named Lee wrote that." I believe it.

Tomorrow we are back to Whittier again for our big adventure in the most beautiful place in the world with the biggest camera in the world. Hopefully no new posts for a few days....