Is it raining where you are?
Oh yes…
Thought it sounded like it
You know it’s pretty heavy rain when the person you’re talking to can hear the drops hitting your Tinker Bell umbrella over the cell phone connection.
This is the “week of lasts” for our Canada/New England season. Each time we put a port to our rudder, we are doing so for the final time this year. You simply can’t stay in this area during the winter, or even the late fall really – the heavy rain will eventually turn to snow and biting cold, and that’s not the kind of weather people like to vacation in. so we’re turning tail and heading towards warmer climes – just like birds heading south for the winter.
Personally I like the rain, although it does make me tend to crave fireplaces and hot cocoa.
You don’t notice it as much in this area as you do in say, Alaska, where entire streets pack up and follow us to fun and sun; but all around us in every port are signs that the touristy areas of town are closing up shop for the season. Yesterday in Charlottetown a bedraggled looking empty pier stood where only last week a thriving sea-side restaurant had been; packed up and put away like it was never there. As for Sidney, it’s never been the most bustling town to begin with, and with weather like this even the locals are trenching in for the cold season and barely showing their faces.
And as for me, I have to admit that despite the cold the world looks sunnier now. It could easily be something as simple as the fact that I’ve been getting more sleep, but the haze that seems to have been over me the last few weeks is finally starting to lift. Not that it was particular bad…it was something like, looking through a fog bank and not quite being able to make out the far horizon.
But hey, rain, snow, cold or sun we go on right?
So…Europe here we come!