Road Trip in New England....U S A

Getting ready for a day on the water with Jeff and Sue

Hats, hats and even more hats whats a hairy hat man to do when it comes to choosing a new hat!

Simon and Ollie waiting patiently for Clam burgers

Well we have started our two weeks over here in the North East of the U.S. The journey over was a bit of a nightmare, getting form the Hebrideas and for Simon and Oliver up from Cornwall to London, where we stayed with Harry Wheelan. Harry always gives us a good send off, which is normally marked by hangovers during the journey. This time Harry wasn't there to say good bye, he was still partying at 6am the morning we left, but the hangover reminded us he was there at some time. The flights were delayed and we missed our connections so didn't get to Boston till near midnight. Luckily Susanna was there to meet us as we were all flagging.

The next day we had a good session on the water with Jeff and Sue. practising strokes rescues and some rock gardening. Most importantly for me Simon taught Ollie to roll, and later on that day he actually had to roll in anger! Well done Ollie, and cheers Simon.

While we are here we shall be conducting a presentation on some of our expeditions at the Kittery Trading Post, so yesterday we visited it and I have got to say its an amazing outdoor store, with everything you need to live an outdoor life, which is obviously so important to the people in New England. More importantly they also sell hats, I need a new hat but found there was just too many to choose from, so we went off to have Clams instead..... Having a great time so far and looking forard to heading North, Simons off to Tom Bergh's place at Peaks Island and Ollie and I are off to Bar Harbour for a five day trip in the Acadia National Park...Awesome.