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Drive to Pennsylvania to See the Autumn Leaves

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Saturday, October 25 — We decided to take a drive to see the leaves change color. Eric found an app that said that as of this morning, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania was the closest place that had the best ratio of colorful leaves. What was interesting was that last night, it gave us a different town, so clearly, it’s being updated frequently.

Chambersburg was 2-hours northeast of us. The drive up in an of itself was pretty. This was what the highway looked like most of the way.

Traffic did seriously slow down outside of Baltimore, but it picked up again as soon as we passed Baltimore. We could see Baltimore from the highway, and we had nostalgia about the month that we’d spent there. Eventually, we left the highway for Highway 97, which was a two-lane road that ran through a rural area that looked to be mostly agricultural.

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Keith’s Perspective on Our Third Week in Annapolis/Le point de vue de Keith sur notre troisième semaine à Annapolis

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This week has been fun. On Saturday, Sauvage came over in the afternoon. It was very rocky and uncomfortable. On Sunday, we went out to breakfast and then went to a grocery store. After that we went to a corn maze with some old friends of Mom’s. It was super duper b o r i n g . 

Cette semaine était amusante. Samedi, Sauvage est venu sur le bateau pendant l’après-midi. Il y avait beaucoup de roulis et c’était très inconfortable. Dimanche, nous sommes allés manger dehors pour le petit dejeuner puis nous avons fait les courses. Après ça nous sommes allés a un labyrinthe de plans de maïs avec un ami de maman. C’était extrêmement ennuyant.

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Exploring Annapolis by Car

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On Friday, October 24, 2025, Christi went for a walk to the river side of the condo complex to watch the sunrise.

However, it was too cold to stand idly, so she wound up skipping the sunrise in favor of going back to the warm boat.

Yesterday morning, Eric polished the second tank of fuel and rinsed down boat while Keith and Christi did school. At noon, Eric picked up the rental car. Our paravane fish were rusting and he wanted to get them sanded and repainted. He loaded fish in car and took them to the nearby boat yard for an estimate. The person who would be doing the job wasn’t in and told him to come back later. Next, he went to West Marine.

For lunch, we wanted to go to a highly rated restaurant called Grumpy’s, which served Thai food and donuts. We entered the name into Maps, and the cafe popped up as being in the same shopping center as West Marine.

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Fueling Up and Changing Marinas in Annapolis, MD

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Dawn on Wednesday, October 22, taken from the fuel dock.

It was the perfect day to get fuel. It had rained overnight, but was clear now. The wind was supposed to pick up soon, but was calm now. It was close to high tide, so it was easy to get on and off the boat for tying/untying. The fuel dock was conveniently located at our marina. We untied and went around the corner, where two staff caught the lines and tied us up to the fuel dock. Christi was relieved because she was not good at tying up to pylons, which was very different than tying up to cleats.

One of the tricky aspects of pylons was fenders. Eric had tied some of the fenders sideways while we were in the slip, and he hadn’t moved them prior to coming in to the fuel dock. We’re glad that he had them that way as we probably would have collided with a pylon sticking out from the fuel dock (the photo of the new marina has clear photos of how the pylons stick out from the docks).

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And Even More Exploring and Boat Chores in Annapolis, MD

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The dawn on Monday, October 20 wasn’t dramatic. But one of the things that makes dawns special was that they were rarely the same.

We were pleased to report that it was calm in marina today, which was a huge relief. We needed to rent a car to stock up on supplies for our upcoming trip to the Caribbean. The marina was going to charge us $40 per night for parking. Eric did a little searching and found another marina just outside of town that was less expensive and had free parking — the marina fee and car rental fee together would be the same as what we were paying now for the slip here in Annapolis Yacht Basin. Eric made arrangement to move Kosmos to the other marina on Wednesday and rent a car on Thursday. We decided to fuel up during the move. 

In anticipation for the fuel up, Eric checked all the raycor filters and added the fuel additives Biobor and Stanadyne to the tank. Eric forgot there was back pressure in the new pump and spilled some fuel when checking the filters. He got fuel all over himself.  

After we finished school and chores, we walked to Picante for lunch. Eric hadn’t eaten there yet, and he loved it. Eric hadn’t really done much sightseeing in town yet, so we walked by the State House and took side streets back to the City Dock, including several that none of us had been on before. While most of the trees were still green, a few were changing colors.

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