Adventuring off the beaten track
Dear friends and family, Happy New Year to all and a healthy one as well. Today is launching day for getting the boat wet and off the trailer. It has been a long drive to get here. Where is here? I am in Port Isabel, which is quite close to the Mexican border and a […]
Bike tour revisited, arrived at starting line and organizing gear and food Read More »
Dear family and friends, I am enjoying my time camping in the bed of my new (to me) truck. I live out on the point, where there are no services, like power or plumbing. It’s only a short walk to the clubhouse where I spend considerable time with my writing and trip logistics planning, since
Down and Out in Paris and London and Training Read More »
Dear friends and family, I write you from sunny and windy Lake Havasu City, joined here by 58,000 mostly retired people or those serving them. This is my halfway point to getting to the lowest point in Texas to start my Gulf Coast Non-Motorized Tour. Since I ended the bike trip early and since hurricane
Long drive, RV Parks Aren’t All the Same, Camping Practice Read More »
Dear friends and family, Happy Thanksgiving to one and all! I am at my temporary “residence” of Lake Havasu City, Arizona, camping in the bed of my new to me pickup truck. I towed my little sailboat over 1300 miles to get here over the last four days. No snow at the passes so an
The Great Gulf Coast Non-Motorized Tour Read More »
Dear friends and family, A couple of you have inquired if everything is ok, and indeed it is. Presently, I am enjoying the summer in Alaska that never arrived earlier in the season. It has been sunny for almost two weeks with little wind. The marina is mostly empty as the fishermen are still out
Wilderness, not fish, three alarm day Read More »
Dear friends and family, I was determined to find a silver lining to the forced return to Wrangell in the middle of my ambitious cruising adventures for this summer. When I think back on my life I now realize that some of my most awful or traumatic life events turned out to have a silver
Silver Lining, Published, Impostor Read More »
Dear friends and family, After three weeks back in Wrangell, the last of the parts came, I installed them, and like some sort of minor miracle, the heater actually worked. It worked three days in a row by now, so I guess it might really be fixed. It’s really hard to find the cause of
Heater, Whales, and shhh Starlink Read More »
Dear friends and family, Last night was my first night at anchor, so as I expected, I did not sleep that well. I know from years of experience that it takes me a few days to get used to my dwelling being attached to the bottom of the ocean by a metal anchor and a
Solo in the wilderness and enjoying the comfort of heat-until I don’t Read More »
Dear friends and family, Now that the boat is ready, it is time to get myself ready. I haven’t allowed for lethargy here, so I am staying fit by using the local community center gym (until it closed for maintenance last week) and my rowing dinghy and bicycle and of course walking. I regularly do
Fear thoughts and making friends Read More »
Dear friends and family, I am back writing and blogging, now from Southeast Alaska. I have been up here for five weeks now with an especially bigger amount of boat maintenance to do this year. I hadn’t hauled out the boat for four and a half years, so it seemed time to haul her, check
Wrangell again and boat prep for summer cruising Read More »