16 days

16 days....

16 days, a little over two weeks, 384 hours. The list have been made and remade. Bags have been packed and repacked. Every detail is being scrutinized. Much pacing and pondering has happened. There is still so much more to do. 

Recent purchases for the trip include a Columbia rain jacket and a melon baller. The rain jacket makes perfect sense. The melon baller, well, ask any of the Housey's that survived the great Mississippi River voyage of 1988. 

The greatest concern now is the weather. Temperatures can be adjusted for but the seas can't. We are just watching and waiting...