Monday morning and we returned south through all of those bridges and one lock to Chesapeake. It is a trip of 12 miles but with the bridges opening only on the hour or the half, it took 3.5 hours.

We do have a broken stabilizer and the part was ordered for it. This week dragged on because the wrong part was ordered, the next day the right part still didn’t come and when the right part came, the mechanic couldn’t get the old part off. When the work was completed, the mechanic still couldn’t get the stabilizer to work correctly and needed another part. It is Memorial weekend and no one is going to be back at work until Tuesday. What to do? The frustrating part is that we came in with both stabilizers working with one having an oil leak; we now have one not working at all!

There is a shopping center nearby and we have walked to it a lot over the last few days. There are also flocks of Canada geese here. Honking every morning!

We filled up with fuel at $4.20 a gallon. The next day the price was $4.50.

We have decided to leave for the Chesapeake and we will locate another Naiad service center. Kelley suggested that the broken part be ordered from California so that it would be here Tuesday when they all come back to work, but no one was interested in doing that. This is frustrating. I am glad we are going tomorrow.