Remembrance Day

This morning we were still at the marina and so could use the internet to find some Remembrance Day events. Christopher is very interested in this day and focuses on anything we can find. We did our own little two minutes of silence on the boat. Thinking about the wars of past and present and us sitting on this boat in 2008 was very reflective. I felt great gratitude for the sacrifice of the soldiers and their families that has led to our family being free enough to venture off on this adventure. And that we are free to do this in a foreign country is quite remarkable. On our journey so far we have met a soldier on the subway in Washington who had returned from Iraq and some fellow Canadian boaters who had just retired from the Armed Forces. It is people like these who we'd like to thank today while remembering those from the past.

And so we finished with our remembrances and tossed off the dock lines to venture further south, but not much further. We crossed over the Neuse River, which was building to be quite bouncy by then and headed up to a quiet anchorage along Adams Creek. We can sleep well here tonight. Thank you soldiers.