Flashback: A New Series Recapping the Missed Adventures of the Curious Souls : Part I

It was about this time last year that the blog started getting a little patchy. We would post when we could, but we left some holes and we missed sharing a lot of fun stuff with you! We always had the intent to go back and review and now, this is our chance.

Flashback to Southern Maryland: The Souls were taking some time off from the road and being treated to garden-fresh meals, VIP art tours, and fancy drinks. We even had some spa treatment!

(I highly recommend the entertaining show.)

One of the things we missed talking about was our water-borne adventures. In addition to some paddling around St. Mary's River/Bay in kayaks, MB and family took us out for a spin on the St. Mary's College boat.

Vid

Later on, we had some personalized small boat sailing instruction and even took one of the smaller boats out on our own for a spell. The fact that we managed to stay dry the whole time cemented our love of wind-powered vessels. If anyone has an extra sailboat, we'll gladly take it off your hands!

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* Cultural Reference for Sailing Video

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