A red rash creeps up the side of my left foot, another is threatening the toes on my right foot. Our feet have been in and out of the Mekong […]
200 kilometers down the Mekong!
I have half an hour to write this and add pictures and it’s hard to know where to start. Yesterday we finished our sixth day on the river, the last […]
Travels around Cambodia: The islands and the river.
Read time (10 min) – mostly pictures after intro text. Sudeep will be here tomorrow, and if all goes well we will be paddling south from the Laos border on […]
Coffee Delivery on the Mekong River
Total read time: 15 minutes. Returning to Anacortes for a few weeks in January and camping out in my van was fool-hearted. Surely it couldn’t be as cold as northern […]
Sailing the Saroca in the Salish Sea
When my sailboat got hoisted out of the water in early August, her propeller strut bent and algae clinging to her hull, I knew it would be a long battle […]
East of the San Juans: New York, Thailand, Cambodia, New York.
Read time: 10 minutes No fancy literary allegories here. Just plain ol’ catch-up since my post about sea kayaking in the San Juan Islands last fall. Suffice to say, I […]
Paddling from Orcas Island to Anacortes in the San Juan Islands
Read time: 10 minutes. I love the fact that I can take my home on adventures. Sailing through the San Juan Islands and dropping anchor at a beautiful destination for […]
Summer of Wind and Sail
The seasons are changing and part of me is relieved to feel the cooler nights and see the occasional leaf fall to the ground. This summer I stretched my legs […]
Catching up – baby joggers to pack rafts to sails.
It’s been almost eight months since I last wrote here. Time keeps slipping by – below is a quick recap of some adventures since then. New resolutions are to write […]
From Paddling the Cayahoga to Sailing the Intercoastal Waterway
About a year ago my aunt Mimi started asking if I was going to come to the family reunion in July. I had missed the last one about 30 years […]