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touring the hurricane damage

the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Halifax, 2003.10.26

Chako arrived, today. We picked her up after hangover-reduced start, and took her on a tour of the damage to the city from hurricane Juan. Then we went to the coast and took in the worsening weather brooding over the rocks. I got some good pics.

We have rented a van that has turned out to be reasonably comfortable for the four of us. The big test comes tomorrow when we head for the Cabot Trail, of course.

rand()m quote

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.