This picture of the good ship Quijote passing thru the Ballard locks in Seattle was taken by one of the many people who are supporting our upcoming trip is unexpected ways. In this case, the photographer was a friend of Sue and Bob named Kelly. She had assisted that day by dropping us off (and picking us up) at the marina where Rod keeps the boat. Then she surprised everyone by showing up at the locks and waving us off on one of our practice sailings!
The point is, there are many people who are helping with the upcoming trip. As a reader of this blog, you may be one of them! We thank each of you, even if you are just sending positive thoughts our way.
You may notice that we are privileged to be going on a beautiful sailing boat. In the image above we are passing thru the "small locks" in Ballard which are really nifty since the wall that we tie up to actually slides up and down with the changing of the water level! This means we do not have to loosen/tighten the lines as the boat is raised or lowered. Somebody was clearly thinking when they designed those locks.....
