Approaching Point Venus, I hungered in doubtful anticipation for a respite from the weather. I’d been stumbling as manfully as I knew how in from 80 miles at sea with […]

I find myself, again, getting into in that place I always get when I get too comfortable in one spot for too long. Like a watermelon pip clenched between the […]

Scott figured the dart would hit him square in the forehead.  As he watched it arc in from his roommate’s finger tips he bandied about the various options as to […]

Ach. I could hardly stand it any more. Mabrouka continued to shift giddily about, …rolling port, jerking half-way starboard then back to port, pitching forward, rolling port again, then a […]

What had I expected?  I don’t know, but the transit from Galapagos to the Marquesas was both as expected and a surprise.  We hauled anchor and motored away from Santa […]

Looking back on it from five months further down the line, the Galapogaen island of Santa Cruz was pretty much a business stop for me.  It was early April and, […]

How can I already have spent two blog entries describing Isabella when I haven’t much touched upon our real adventures there?  I think Roger and Lisa would agree that it […]

  We started out pretty much being lazy tourists in Isabela. Well, not Lisa, since she climbed up a hill and then down into a hole, while Roger and I […]