One Funny Photo and two Videos

I took this of my friend’s boat yesterday afternoon.Why is it funny?  Here, let me zoom in for you.See the plastic owl?As for the video.  I hang out on a few message boards, one of which can get pretty political.  One poster (I’ll call h…

Maine Musing is now Moosetique Musing…

This blog has been called Maine Musing and will now be called Moosetique Musing. In the beginning the blog was mostly about Maine and I lived in Maine,  but then we retired and started to travel. I then started to … Continue reading →The p…

Heading East to Get South

After an enjoyable stay in Mobile which included some sight-seeing to places Susan remembered from living there a lifetime ago, Sojourner headed east and hopefully to warmer weather.  Our next destination was Carrabelle, near the eastern edge of the Florida Panhandle. Most cruisers “jump” the Gulf of Mexico to get to the west coast of […]

Black Friday

Did you get any great bargains today? We had great weather and a great brunch with the ten relatives who joined us this morning. Matt made an egg bake with Ortega chiles. We also had lots of bacon plus scrambled eggs and waffles for the kids. We also h…

11/23/2012 – Friday – Pensacola

Today was a “get the boat ready” to head out tomorrow and “just relax” day.  Josh started off with making slip reservations at The Wharf Marina for tomorrow night for all three boats and making sure our new windlass was being shipped to Ne…

11/23/2012 – Friday – Pensacola

Today was a “get the boat ready” to head out tomorrow and “just relax” day.  Josh started off with making slip reservations at The Wharf Marina for tomorrow night for all three boats and making sure our new windlass was being shipped to N…

Poor Bibi — Lucky Us

We can’t figure out why he went into the water. He was on a wide straight dock…must have seen something. Who knows what goes on in those kitty brains? The great news is that a man on the dock saw him go into the water, and stopped by our boat to t…

Coming Home

Just a quick post launch update… We spent about a week after the launch tied up at the pier at our Mare Island build site finishing up details prior to the trip home. The boat certainly feels much more at home in the water than she did on blocks on …

Coming Home

Just a quick post launch update… We spent about a week after the launch tied up at the pier at our Mare Island build site finishing up details prior to the trip home. The boat certainly feels much more at home in the water than she did on blocks on …

We are Alive But…

(Wednesday – Thursday Nov 21/22 – Dist: 202.8 mi; TTT: 26:30 hrs)

We are alive but there were times when I was wishing, well, something else.  Let me start at the beginning:

We have been waiting for over two weeks for some calm seas on the Gu…