Friday, August 31, 2018

Day #93: Winter Quarters in Belleville, Ontario

2018's 1800 mile loop.


We're back in Belleville so that's a wrap for 2018! In all 1,813 miles this year and 8,232 miles since leaving Naples in 2016.

24 miles from Napanee to Belleville, Ontario


It's a beautiful summer afternoon and we've started doing the myriad chores necessary to prepare Nellie for her winter hibernation. I can almost hear Nellie saying, "Wait, it's too soon to quit cruising." This echos every child's lament captured so well by this stanza:

And does it not seem strange to you,
when all the sky is clear and blue,
and I would like so much to play
to have to go to bed by day.

-- Robert Louis Stevenson, Bed in Summer

Until next 2019. DBH