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Thursday, September 13, 2018

Saturday-Monday Sept 8-10: Oyster Bay, NY

Oyster Bay is a cute little upscale bedroom community of New York City, and was home to Theodore Roosevelt, as plaques everywhere like to point out.  This is where he ran the 'summer White House' while he was in office, and this is where he died at the age of 61.  There is a large waterfront park named for him, with walking trails, a large baseball field, tennis courts, playgrounds, beach area, and many pavilions for picnicking or just gathering.  On Saturday afternoon, the nicest day of our weekend here, we walked all through the park, and came upon this great little memorial of stones commemorating all the milestones in TR's life.  Embedding in the walls are rocks or bricks from places, representing where he was born (New York City), when he ended the coal strike in Pennsylvania, when he oversaw the building of the Panama Canal and more.  The artist who put this together called these "chapters" in Roosevelt's life.  There are more than twenty chapters depicted here.

We also found a small motorcycle shop that was actually a motorcycle display of Billy Joel's collection, and we befriended the man who worked there.  He gave us tips on where to eat and who might possibly be able to replace or fix our starter.  (More on that in the next blog.)  We took note of the restaurants and their menus for a meal on Sunday - the weather looking like we'll be in place through Monday.  We visited the library and walked the side streets until it began to rain lightly, getting our steps in until we returned to the boat for the night.

Sunday it was cool and misty - promising more rain.  We had a leisurely morning, then suited up for the trip ashore to see if we could find the football game playing somewhere.  We had to settle for watching the Jaguars beat the Giants in a small bar/restaurant, then we took a short walk, had an early supper at a small diner advertising the biggest and best burgers of New York State (there were big, and they were very good) and dinghied back in the rain.  The forecast says Monday is going to be all rain and wind.  We weighed anchor and moved to a more protected spot in the harbor, right off the beach of the Theodore Roosevelt Park.

Monday was a long, quiet day of reading, tinkering, and playing Scrabble.  Outside the wind howled and the rain whipped at the windows. 


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