flickr Mom & Dad on Skip’s boat

Posted July 22, 2005 • Comments Off on Mom & Dad on Skip’s boat


Mom & Dad on Skip’s boat
Originally uploaded by kostia.

I just think they’re so cute. I got them Tilley hats for Christmas, and I’m so tickled that they actually wear them. With the windproof chinstraps, no less!

Skip is my parents’ hippie friend.

When I was a kid, I remember him rolling his own cigarettes, and going out of his way to pick up trash whenever we were outside. Every Christmas he sends a newsletter updating us on where he and his sons have been that year (usually sailing in New Zealand, building Habitat houses, protesting in Peru, that sort of thing), and he always signs off with what I can only describe as the exact opposite of my father’s political leanings.