FRIDAY  OCT 18: Today we may register for this Snowbird Rendezvous to hear about the Intracoastal Waterway (ICW)

  After we go up and back to the Potomac River when the winds shift to south we will be heading further south on the ICW to get the boat to warmer water.  The pictures are of the Hampton Public Pier Marina and Shawnee in a slip.  The big green round building is where the facilities - bathrooms, showers, laundry, store are.  The cool building with wings is the Virginia Air and Space museum where we went to see "Gravity" on an IMAX screen.  It's a great museum with models of the history of aviation from the Wright brothers planes to jets.  Thought of Dillon who loved seeing this as a kid.
  The water looks calm but out of the Hampton River in the Chesapeake Bay the wind is blowing from the north at 10 +  so if we sailed north we would have to motor against the wind hitting the waves dead on - not fun.