If you’ve ever traveled on the ICW, you can relate to the nuisance of the draw bridges. Of course that’s also true for the road traffic which is being interrupted by the opening schedules of the bridges on busy waterways, which they might see this…
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Stress Relief
Has the owner of this catamaran picked the right name for her, we wondered? (Continued…)
SSCA Gam
Last weekend the SSCA (Seven Seas Cruising Association) Gam in Melbourne, Florida was in full swing. We’ve been members for a long time and are now holding the status of Lifetime Commodores (25+ years). It’s a great cruising club of likeminded b…
Diesel Duck fan and antique car collector
Meet David and Georgia Katz. David took “Seaducktress” a 44′ Diesel Duck, from East Asia all the way to Australia and then from Australia, via Hawaii to continental USA and up to Alaska and down. As you can read, Diesel Duck trollers do get around!…
Democracy
I haven’t been writing much because for the past week we "cat sat" for my sister and stayed at her house where there are 3 TVs. It’s amazing how much time you can spend watching television: not reading or writing or wha…
Home
We’re settling into life in one place for awhile, and re-integrating back into our lives in Sonoma County (although I’m already twitching to be going again). Doctors, dentists, lab tests, new glasses, physical therapy… Jeez, send me back to SE A…
Sunday afternoon onboard Diesel Duck
Diesel Duck is parked (anchored in 8 ft) on the east side of the Melbourne (Florida) Causeway Bridge, protected from the North and Northwest wind which is blowing down the Intracoastal Waterway at 20+ knots. There are always chores to do, but today, S…
Happy Halloween!
We celebrated Halloween last night at the home of our friends Lois and Gerry and it was all "treats." And though you can’t tell it from my photos there was a very lively full house!
Halloween at Lois and Gerry’s
Lois and G…
Final trip email
I’ve mixed feelings about this final trip email. Relief that I’ve finally caught up; sadness that the trip is really over. I get to relive everything writing about it and reading the comments folks send in as comments.…
Virginia Ham, Chef Charmaine, games and guitars
The Canadian adventure continues with this email. (Warning, food photos! Don’t read if hungry!!)
Charmaine and Linda are world travelers. To bring them something unique we had to think “close to home.” We brought wine from …
