So, what’s been happening on the good ship DavidEllis? Things are falling apart; that’s what’s happening! Right before Christmas the isolation transformer (where the electrical shorepower enters the boat) shorted itself and a week later the inverter-…
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A Four Hour Walk with Sharman and Sophie
I’m writing this email while Randal is in the galley cooking up a spaghetti dinner using some of the ground meat from the butcher. I’m not really a spaghetti person, but this evening I’m starving from the 4 hour walk in the hills this morning I d…
VIP's visits!!
Last week my parents arrived for a visit onboard Diesel Duck in Ft. Lauderdale. Mom, 84 years young and Dad, 87 are enthusiastic company we try to keep up with. On an excursion on the Jungle Queen, Mom took to the wheel on the upper deck, but to actu…
Hello
Our friends Julia and Rob are off to Thailand for some sun and tropical warm weather and they have kindly loaned us their car. Today we made good use of it driving to Lefkosa/Nicosia to the Turkish Embassy to clear up the motorbike mess cr…
Visit from Heidi and Kalle
Hi Everyone,
I want you to meet two really nice very interesting people. Heidi and Kalle Trautmann….
Ru
It was serendipity and some left-over reference skills that led me to Heidi Trautmann’s website. Heidi is an a…
Trying to buy toilet paper when you don’t speak the language!
For some reason our satellite TV is now working so I could watch Once Upon A Time this past Friday night. The US is ahead of Cyprus in episodes, but I’ve only seen about 3 of them so they are all new to me. It was the episode w…
This and that
A special congratulations to my pals at the Roanoke County Public Library and the grand opening of the new South County Library. Wish I could have been there. Libraries are priceless, but a library with a coffee shop, doubly priceles…
12 Volt Issues!
The New Year is coming in like a lion. Diesel Duck sits snug under anchor in Bimini waiting for the blustery weather to subside to make her trip across the Gulf Stream to Ft. Lauderdale. Now is a good time to post the first write-up (of 4) of the pro…
Happy New Year
Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
(Hemingway’s Restaurant & Bar Karpaz Gate Marina)
Happy New Year from North Cyprus
For those of you who don’t know, this is the famous Roanoke, VA traveling fruitcake. It began its travels in 1999 when John Edwards a…
Happy New Year
We are in Bimini now after leaving Chub Cay on Friday morning. OK, we don’t have to be back in Ft. Lauderdale for another ten days, but knowing the weather forecast and acting on it is the key to happiness or the difference between a cake run and perh…
