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Kathmandu Day 2 Cont’d
Last evening we were taken for a welcome dinner at a “traditional” Nepali restaurant with dancers performing both Hindu and Buddhist dances. Before the meal started we had to remove our shoes to enter the dining area, and our foreheads were mark…
Kathmandu Day 2
Vegetables at locaL market in Thamel DistrictMore Thamel Street ScenesMore Thamel SceneryStatue on Durbar Marq SquareSome of the horrendous trafficAfter a night trying to recover from jet lag when we are nearly 11 hours ahead, we tried the breakfast pr…
Seattle to Kathmandu
The chauffeur limo arrived right on time and by 1545 both Sean and I were through security and into the lounge at the South Terminal. Arriving at the business class lounge we sampled some Washington red wines before boarding the Emirates …
Upper Inland Waterways 2: The Mississippi, Ohio & Cumberland Rivers
After a one-day layover for some routine maintenance and repairs, Sojourner headed down the Mississippi River, and with the departure from Port Charles Harbor, we began to retrace our inaugural adventure four years and some 17,000 miles ago. Back then, with Patti and Carol of Sea Sense aboard as our training captains, we were “baptized” […]
Vibration Only Partially Solved
Turned out both our propellers were out of alignment. We had them reworked all the way down to the root. But unfortunately, while that did solve maybe 50% of the vibration on the port side (starboard is always solid as a rock), we continue to get vib…
The Upper Inland Waterways 1: Lake Michigan to the Big Muddy
After our Lake Michigan adventure, we spent some time at the Hammond (IN) Marina. That’s the place best known to cruisers as the stop where the transient docks are closer to the Casino than to the marina office! But the casino had no $5.00 Blackjack tables (remember, Carolyn bets only $20.00), so we spent even […]
Here We Go Again
We are back at Deltaville with a mission of figuring out why out port drive train starts vibrating like mad at 1770rpms. Obviously vibrating at lower rpms, but I get ‘waves’ in my coolant overflow tank at 1770! (Continued…)
The strangest things speak to me
As with the pile of rancid rubbish on Madul, I had an epiphany today from the strangest thing. I was asked why I like Gili Air so much. It is beautiful but so are most places I go. It has remarkable people eager to connect, again not unique and it…
Bali Adventure
We are headed north in the channel that we had such a good ride down, 11.5 knots, but it is uphill heading north again, 2 knots now against the current. This will turn out to be a 14 hour day where the trip down was 6 hours, oh the forces of Neptune. …
