December 2

Today we left Titusville for Melbourne. On the way we saw and talked with Total Return, Russ and Molly, who we met last year in Grafton. He learned to ski at Brantling and was wearing a Brantling T-shirt when we first met. Russ retired from his business in financial advising in Rochester and is a friend of Fifi Steinrotter. This picture is along the way to Melbourne and shows a broken guy wire on this pole. We are certain (though it probably isn't) the very one that Mark and Vickie's boat was clotheslined on by their hired captains. Melbourne is where our traveling companions on Gandolf are staying. Melbourne was named after the one in Australia after a lottery winner chose the name because he was from that city.