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Amazing Utah

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Utah is absolutely amazing!  I used my GoPro Hero2 and made a few small time-lapse movies in some of the parks we visited.  This is a quick stitch of the movies.

In this video you see Grand Canyon (1st shot is from Grand Viewpoint, 2nd is from Angles Landing trail head), Arches National Park, Bryce Canyon, The Wave (this is in Escalante Grand Staircase National Monument; we were lucky to win the lottery for a walk in permit the day before our planned hike) and finally Monument Valley National Park (technically this is the Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park and is in Arizona but the features are in Utah).

 

Back to Utah

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After a week in Sint Maarten we are back in Utah.  We arrived around midnight last night to the campsite.  We found the truck under a pile of leaves and branches but in pretty good shape.  She started right up and there were no leaks after 6 weeks of sitting in the cold.  I cannot say the same for us though.  We came from 32C to -2C.  Neither of us slept much last night.

We have a lot of videos and pictures to post from the Caribbean.  We will be updating the blog quite a bit in the next week.  Here is a quick video I put together as a teaser :).

 

On the way to the Caribbean

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We are leaving Saturday at 6am.  Destination St. Martinique.  Weather permitting, the estimate is the crossing will be 7 days.  The skipper says the first day or two it will be rough until we cross the Gulf Stream but after the temperature should get warmer and hopefully we should get steady northerly winds.

I thought this was a really cool visual of the Gulf Stream from wikipedia.org.

 

Sailing update …

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We arrived in Norfolk VA yesterday evening.  We managed to slip in right before the worst of the Nor’easter storm hit the east coast.  We spent 2 days motoring from Connecticut around Long Island and down to Norfolk.  We hit 40mpg winds and 6 to 8 feet waves.  It wasn’t very pretty but we made it in safely.  The boat is awesome.  T and I have a cabin and with toilet and shower just for us.  We are 6 crew on board and did 3 shifts of 3 hours each.  Basically everybody stays on shift for 3 hours and sleeps for 6 after.  Here are some pictures of the boat.