North Carolina is bracing for their first real winter in over 20 years.

Forecast for traveling with boat does not look good.....really cold with temps in single digits for the 24th through the 30th. Snow expected on the 28th of January .....maybe a total of 3 inches.....and I thought I had left NY specifically to get away from this.

Three inches, WOW, coming from Rochester, NY to North Carolina, really,  what the heck is 3 inches of snow??. In Rochester area we get storms with like 20,25 and 30 inches and more, but 3 inches.....why all the fuss.
Because NC does not own any plows, at least coastal North Carolina.
And what a difference the right equipment makes.

I went to bed tonight...and still no snow just like hail and stuff which makes roads slippery, but passable.

Another un-eventful flight from NY to NC

Well....OK maybe a bit eventful. Got a call from US Air, the flights I am booked on may be cancelled due to inclement weather in Charlotte, NC  and the type of turbo-props I am booked on., but they rearranged my schedule. Can I be at the airport by 6:00AM.......I said what airport, they said LGA, and they would fly me to LGA tonight if I am willing for free.

I had a wake-up call scheduled for 4AM and then rushed to make it by 6:00 AM to airport. US AIR put me on a flight from LGA to CLT to EWN.

I arrived as scheduled at Noon in New Bern and back on boat by 1:30PM......with a freezing rain and a local forecast of cold and winter weather.

First....Back to NY for me

After being awake half the night, I have decided with the cold and lousy weather to go back to NY for this funeral, and come back on Tuesday the 28th of January.

The flight to NY was uneventful...Dottie drove me to the EWN airport and I was in our door at 7PM. The only glitch I had was that my flight from Charlotte to Philly was an hour late getting in, so they put me right out on a flight to Syracuse instead of Rochester.     More later!!

Well.....here we go again,

I got a phone call last night that a gentleman I know fairly well in Clyde has just passed and we will be handling the funeral. I spoke to his wife tonight on phone and told her we can do calling hours Sunday and funeral Monday.......she agreed.

Picking up Dottie at Airport

Finally.....I will be picking up Dottie tomorrow at the Carolina Regional Airport in New Bern, NC

Well....the 16th is out

Spoke with Dottie this AM and she said she in not flying down until January 17th, because our daughter Natalie is going on a new type of Drug for her MS....It is an infusion called Tysabri so we are not going anywhere for now. or at least not until the 21st or so of January.

Back onboard AGAIN

Yesterday, Saturday,  January 11, 2014, I drove down from NY with the intention that by January 16 we will be underway again and maybe this time get on down far enough where there is no ice, freezing temps or snow....we shall see.