On Saturday I hopped into my car and drove to Maryland. I chartered a sailboat and took a two hour cruise on the Chesapeake Bay. It was very nice. The captain looked like a real sea dog. He wore a Hawaiian shirt, had a long white beard and incessantly played Jimmy Buffet music. The boat was called The Crab Imperial, which I thought was pretty funny.

I need to do things like this more often despite the rising gasoline costs. Even though it was just a regular weekend, it somehow felt like a mini-vacation because I got away.