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Now Accepting Pre-Orders for Book 2!

The Unexpected Circumnavigation: Unusual Boat, Unusual People Part 2 – Australia to Oman is currently being printed. The book will officially go on sale on Friday, November 11th. It will retail for $21.50 for the paper book and $9.95 for … Continue reading

Snap, Crackle and Pop

We managed to arrive in Long Beach last night after a five day non stop cruise down the Oregon, California coast line. We were all looking forward to a good nights sleep… Well,  as we settled in for the night and laid our heads down on our pillo…

Trip to Panama City

The trip from Los Suenos to Panama City was interesting. The first day was pretty rough and all three of us felt bad. After that things got a lot better. We saw a lot of trash (large trees, logs, brush and 4×4 pieces of wood) in the water du…

Harbor area farmers market

The prices don’t compare to those in the Turkish Pazars, but the flavors are  wonderful!!!

Are we there yet?

Cluttered Radar

This is what our radar looked like as we where threading our way through to the entrance of the break water in Long Beach. We did manage to see a faint glow from one of the many cargo ships we passed. 

Improving our instrument skills!!!

We didn’t make it out of the fog all day.  As we got closer to Long Beach the fog got thicker and thicker and thicker… ZERO visibility.  I was ASSURED SEVERAL  times by both Bob and Bill that this was a wonderful opportunity to test ou…

Pea soup

We are about 100 miles north of Long Beach, our destination.  After crossing the bar in Astoria we have cruised non stop. I am anxious to have some quiet time. Thor has performed great! Of course Bill is out hosing the salt water off the boat, he …

Saturday, October 22, 2011 – in front of Loreto

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 On Monday we headed into a lovely anchorage on Isla Carmen across from Loreto. The water was clear and felt wonderful. Unfortunately we were quickly joined by a large number of honey bees. They were not aggressive. They…

Saturday, October 22, 2011 – in front of Loreto

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 On Monday we headed into a lovely anchorage on Isla Carmen across from Loreto. The water was clear and felt wonderful. Unfortunately we were quickly joined by a large number of honey bees. They were not aggressive. They…