Love? After a month on the road? What an optimist!

Geez, it's been at least two hours since we last kissed!

Poor Wakana had never, in her wildest dreams (or nightmares), ever considered that she would someday be steering a 48 foot narrowboat down a canal in England. But that's what she was doing yesterday and doing very well. It takes a bit of practice to figure out how to handle those boats, they are not easy to steer. The boats are 6 feet 10 inches wide. The canal narrows under the bridges to about 8 to 10 feet wide and at the far end of 48 feet of boat that sure doesn't seem like enough. Then there is the nervous anxiety of meeting another boat coming the other way. She's a trooper and did very well.

THis morning we woke to rain on the roof. What a lovely sound. We had a liesurely breakfast and returned the boat. Since then we've been on trains to get to Whitby. We got stuck at Midlesborough, about an hour from Whitby, and will finish the trip tomorrow.