Today, we’re going through stuff. Our house sold in early summer and fortunately the buyers wanted most of the contents, all except personal things. We’re sorting into three piles: necessities, memorabilia and garage sale. Not sur…
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#54 Reflections … A Year Later
Today, we’re going through stuff. Our house sold in early summer and fortunately the buyers wanted most of the contents, all except personal things. We’re sorting into three piles: necessities, memorabilia and garage sale. Not sur…
Off to San Francisco: Leg 2 and New Toys
We pulled into Ventura Keys around 1130 on Thursday. We have friends named Stan and Diane who own a house with a private dock, and they had kindly offered to let us stay at their dock while we waited for … Continue reading →
GALLIPOLI
As Envoy cruised up the narrow buoyed channel towards Ayvalik a RIB was heading directly bow-on towards us. When it was about 30m away we could see it was a Turkish Coastguard RIB, and the officers were signaling us to slow down. I checked our speed as…
THE ISLANDS OF SKYROS AND LESVOS, AND OUR RETURN TO TURKEY
While doing this posting I’ve also added photos to the last one.Skyros, the largest and eastern-most isle of the Northern Sporades, proved to be our favorite of the Group. It’s much quieter, and has much of the charm of the Cyclades with older styl…
WE GET A SEAWATER SHOWER IN BED, AND RETURN TO THE NORTHERN SPORADES
The morning of Doug & Sharon’s arrival we got a rude awakening. We were anchored off a village called Ay Yeoryios, and fishing boats up to about 20m work from there. About 0600 we hear a boat pass close by and then a deluge of water came through our …
Our kinda woman
Heroic woman hairdresser punches massive black bear on the nose to rescue her pet dogRead more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2032677/Hero-hairdresser-rescues-dog-punching-massive-black-bear-FACE.html#ixzz1X5ePMQLMNordhavn Exumas Abacos Baham…
Off to San Francisco: Leg 1 and Repair/Maintenance Items
On Wednesday we left for San Francisco. Leg one was from San Diego to Ventura, which took 24 hours. We left at 1130. For the first seven hours, the wind was steady at 15 knots from the forward port side, … Continue reading →
Living in La Paz
We’re still on our boat but we’ve settled into Marina de La Paz and plan on staying here for awhile, which means at the present we have no plans to leave. We’re no good at making plans let alone following them so we didn’t sign any long term le…
Labor Day
Just a few funnies for Labor day.This one reminds me of Pickwick Lake in Tennessee; where we had a home and kept Istaboa for several years… There the real labor day weekend was the weekend after, when the locals would throw a party at Jon’s Pier and …
