With a bit more than 2 months to go, Team Hughes (Capn. Bill, Admiral Linda & crew dogs, Murphy & Trapper) is beginning preparations for another great adventure south. This year, for the 1st time aboard M/V Ruby Slipper we’re setting our sights on our…
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Floating Doctors
The floating Docs Panga arrives at the villageFloating Doctors August 23, 2012Portobelo, PanamaOnce in a great while, an extraordinary human being comes along and changes lives. I grew up with tales of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Late…
Ghosts and Shadows
Tucked away in the far Northwest corner of the Great Smoky Mountians National Park is this marvellous corner of the world, Cades Cove. The Park Service has been manicuring it and refining it since the forties. In doing so they must have consulted with the art department from National Geogrpahic Publications. If they didn’t then […]
Tied up at the new digs…
… and it seems the blow, or the computer forecasts, have pushed the prediction lines further west into the Gulf of Mexico.NOAA’s forecast is for a Tropical Storm to hit the Keys then form into a Hurricane in the Gulf before making landfall somewhere …
Make It Neat
When it rains it pours. Our streak of bad luck continues to haunt us as we have experienced yet another setback/delay. Last Friday, we discovered the refrigerator went on strike – permanently. The refrigerator…
Wow. 100,000 hits.
100,000 hits on a Seinfeld-esk blog about nothing. Our first blog post was on January 13th, 2011. We were at Seaview House Marina in Stamford, Connecticut fixing up this old tub, hoping that it would be seaworthy enough to take …
Oswego to Brewerton, NY
We leave Oswego for the 31 mile 8 lock day to our winter home, Brewerton, NY, a suburb of Syracuse. We plan to be there 4 nights to prepare Island Hopper for her winter stay. More on that tomorrow. We turn to port out of the m…
Cross Winds Marina, Whitehall, MI – 8/22/12
Ricki’s friend Gale joined us for breakfast on Quest this morning before she went to work. We checked on a rental car and nothing could be found except at the airport in Muskegon 18 miles away but the same town that Gale worked in so she took us …
The Mon (Aug 6 to Aug 14)
Back in 2005 Joe and I went to Trawler Fest in Solomons, MD. That was the year we put a down payment on Carolyn Ann and also met a nice couple from Pennsylvania. One morning in Pittsburgh Joe received an email from Bill – half of that nic…
The Mon (Aug 6 to Aug 14)
Back in 2005 Joe and I went to Trawler Fest in Solomons, MD. That was the year we put a down payment on Carolyn Ann and also met a nice couple from Pennsylvania. One morning in Pittsburgh Joe received an email from Bill – half of that nic…
