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| Pretty Homes Everywhere You Look |
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| Bicki Stands Bow Watch as Nellie Navigates the Shallows |
Do you stay within the channel markers or do you venture outside them? Staying inside the markers is safer. But safety has a cost. For one, it guarantees the scenery won't be as good. Going outside the markers--off the beaten path--is more interesting but also riskier. Treacherous shoals abound and all it takes is one bad decision to sink the boat. Which path do you take?
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
--The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
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| The Navy Islands to Trident Yacht Club, Ontario |
Today's destination was the Trident Yacht Club as we've been invited to attend their opening day festivities. Our 12 mile, circuitous path to get here was definitely outside the markers. DBH
