Wow...Two years. Our lives are incredibly different in many ways. We expected them to be different, but we couldn't have predicted how very different they would be!

A few things have not changed: We are still sailing, still doing boat projects, and still schemeing! In fact, we have now conceived "The Grander Scheme" In two years, Evelyn will graduate from high school and Leslie will be the same age that Evelyn was when we embarked on the Grand Scheme....What if, two years from now, we did it again?

We're thinking of a variation of the Great Loop, going back to Tadoussac from here and thus cruising the area between Nova Scotia and the Gaspe which we didn't do last time, and then going up the Saint Laurence, through the Trent-Severn waterway to lakes Huron and Michigan (Thus sailing the only great lake we haven't cruised before). From there, we'd head south through Chicago and its canals to the Mississippi and then the Tenn-Tom waterway to the Gulf of Mexico and Florida. Then south to get to the keys (another place we didn't get to last time) and then over to the Bahamas before reprising our previous cruise up the east coast and back home to Nova Scotia.

Yes, it's two years off and only a crazy idea...but look what happened the last time I had a crazy idea!