Eric and Bear with Chief Jean-MarcThe men dancingThe woman and childrenThere are big namba villages and small nambas villages and I’m not sure what the difference is. Namba in Bislama seems to have a couple translations. Nambawan means number one s…
Millennium Cave Death March
Those of you who know Eric have probably heard stories about the “Death March” – hikes that he and his buddies have done throughout the years in the Utah deserts, canyons and mountains. I participated in one Death March where we hiked through a f…
WheelChair Regatta
This past weekend we participated in the PICYA WheelChair Regatta at Encinal Yacht Club. If you are a regular blog reader you may already realize that Encinal is one of our favorite Yacht Clubs to visit, so this combined with the chance to give b…
Ohio River to Cumberland River
Today will be our last day on the Mississippi River as we move on to the Ohio River a short ways. We will have traveled 221 miles on the Mississippi and about 58 miles on the Ohio River that will lead us to the Cumberland River of which we will a…
Monday, September 26. 2011
Rejoice!!!! Our boat is finished, almost. It still need two cotter pins which Al is supposed to get tomorrow. And the fuel that was taken out of the leaking tank is to be delivered here tomorrow as well. Today, the generator was hooked up and primed…
Tahiti Cruise Day 2-3
The weather was rainy, but not cold as we disembarked in Vancouver with Bill & Ruth Craven. We grabbed a taxi and headed to Yaletown to check out “Cento Notti”, or 100 Days in Italian. We had tried this restaurant last year when it …
Tahiti Cruise Day 1
We had ordered a Shuttle Express town car to take us to Pier 91 and the cruise ship terminal. What actually arrived was a stretch limo, which was just a little over the top. We certainly arrived in style, and in just a few minutes were thro…
2011 Anchorages and Moorages
Below is a map of all of our stops we made along the way this year. (The blue marks for the stops may not show up in Internet Explorer, try another browser like Firefox or Chrome) View 2011 Alaska Cruise in a larger map
Burlington, We Have Arrived! The Reunion!
Just imagine a brilliant blue sky day, with low humidity about 75 degrees and mirror calm water. That was our ride up the Lake Champlain today. We passed two trawlers and 8 sailboats with their masts stepped for the canal heading south. We, alone, headed north, from a foggy harbor this morning about 4 hours […]
Savusavu
For the past couple of days we’ve been hanging out in Savusavu, a sleepy little town stretched out along the shore of a placid bay and backed by a hilly landscape dripping with greenery. A popular hangout for yachts, there are maybe thirty or forty anchored here in the harbor at the moment. Most are […]
