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Why they call it Sunset Bay

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Blue Angel Sky Show

Another fun thing we did was watch the Blue Angel Skyshow over San Francisco Bay on October 9th. Many boaters like to take their boats out to watch the planes perform directly overhead. We don’t like to take Kosmos out … Continue reading

Flying low to Lauderdale

Yesterday was interesting… Bob, one of our dock buddies, was taking this boat back to Ft Lauderdale and asked if I wanted to ride along.The Van Dutch is so totally different than Istaboa that I figured a run out in a fairly rough sea in such a boat w…

COST OF THE CRUISING LIFE IN THE EASTERN MED

During the last two years we’ve kept detailed records of our cruising costs. Our blog entries dated 16 April 2011 and 10 June 2011 gave quite some detail on this, including an intended cruising budget for 2011 of NZ$90k (approx. US$71k).As a general …

We enjoyed the most beautiful sunset tonight!

Back in La Paz… I need to get my camera out and take some pictures. We have been doing odd projects on the boat getting ready for our guests to arrive in a few days. We have been catching up with Fubar friends that are still hanging around here in La…

More snow … and freezing rain

Sunday's snow mostly was
gone by Monday, but we got another load later in the week. The weather system was difficult
to forecast. Although the snowfall was less than the re…

RIP- Etta James

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Inland Bali

The transportation was really inexpensive in Bali.  I could have rented a motorcycle for the day for about $5 or a car for about $25, but it did not make sense when the cabs were so reasonable.  There were free-lance drivers where you had t…

Exploring Oakland, California

We knew that every Sunday morning there was a Farmer’s Market at Jack London Square. But when Sunday morning rolled around, we almost fell over from shock when we walked upstairs shortly after waking up to see this: The booths … Continue reading

Turning the lights back on

Been dark for a few days because of technical difficulties and having too much fun.Had to send my laptop back to Apple… Seems I wore out the keyboard.Amazing depot service from Apple; I call one day, they send me a box the next day, I ship it back to…