I've more than once parallel parked my old O'day 28, fin keel, etc. which helps, by coming in the propitious direction almost head on, helm hard over and hit the reverse with some serious throttle, prop walk sucks your stern right into the parking place in not much more than a boat length to fill. Let it push your stern off the dock, pull you in, see what it can do to help you. Properly understood, prop walk can also be your friend.

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Portal to portal yesterday, 15 hours, four trains. When we rolled into Heidelberg at nearly 10 p.m. I was SOOOO grateful that my hotel is part of the train station and only a 100 m walk. My backpack luggage was gettin' pretty heavy by then. I think I like the Steve whatshisname's 20 lb limit of luggage for a month on the road but next time I'm goin' wheel. Of course, that's what I said when I got back from Guatemala, too. Oh well. THIS time, I mean it.

Settin' in the lobby set up for wifi'ers to get the free wifi. Otherwise, 6 euros buys five hours...continuous...not sequential, so to speak.

I've not been out the door yet..10'ish..but had what I could of the buffet breakfast and three cups o'tea to try to jumpstart the old bones.

I noticed a great commotion in the trees this morning when opening the window to breathe in the German air. Small'ish green parrot flock in the trees. Seems they escaped from a zoo about five years ago, according to the gal at the desk, and have stayed and flourished. Go figure.

On the train ride down, I was very worried about my connection on short time in Zuerich and met a young couple from Georgia making the same connection. Ohmigod. For only two weeks they had two humongous suitcases and a carryon. What an ordeal for them to truck around...but I digress. I stopped the first guy who looked official on the platform and asked. He directed us all to track 18, ahead of the luggage haulers I spotted the right sign, waved them on, asked two conductor'ish guys for rail car 301, they were standing right at the door of it, we got on. Hell, we had time for a sandwich and coffee..so to speak. After being already 6 minutes late arriving, we found our spot in less than four minutes. So much for my worry. Once again...

I was unable to get a decent photo..mebbe one but have not downloaded yet..of the snow capped Swiss Alps coming through the pass. Holy cow! Talk about bucolic, rugged, beautiful, just what you expect to see!!!! Green meadows hewn from the granite (I think it's granite but...) with alpen huts and houses and moo cows in a kind of gray/buff color, goats on top of large rocks, and roads to make a ferrari driver drool!! Lakes we passed number only three or four but each one was clear water, miles and miles long with the odd boat/sailboat moored here or there or small marinas with a dozen or so.

It was amazing. The number of houses or cabins with no road access, you'd see only a well trod trail heading up the mountain or across the lake's edge.

Very picturesque but more so, just what you'd expect in Switzerland.

Heidelberg