Europe-It’s not you, it’s us.
Ahem… Over the fall, we had some opportunity to ponder just where RS should live. We weighed the pros and cons about keeping her in England, but the truth is that the cruising season is really short there, and I typically work well into July each year. We would basically have a month per year […]
Europe, we just can’t get over you!
It’s been a while since we’ve done an update, mostly since RS has unbelievably been in the Canary islands for a full year. How did this happen? As those of you who have been following us for some time know, we were getting a bit sick of cruising. Jenny was getting tired of getting ditched […]
Rocket Science – the movie!
On our trip from Sardinia back to Spain we brought along our friends Elena and Ryan. They have a fabulous YouTube channel called Sailing Kittiwake. They made this great video of our trip together.
Adios, Europe!
We’ll be leaving soon for another Atlantic crossing, destination Caribbean. We’ve been in Europe for not quite two and a half years. It was a good change for us. We’d essentially been in the tropics (mostly Mexico) since 2009, and I had kept Star Path based in Vallarta since 2002. We were ready to do […]
Winter in Gibraltar
We spent last winter in Gibraltar. We knew little about the place, except that it was a big rock with some famous apes, and British. Of course, we also knew that it was outside the EU, and outside of the Schengen zone, and both were needed to keep me and Rocket Science from getting sideways […]
Cartagena to the Islas Canarias
After our welcome foray into the mountains, we returned to sweltering Cartagena to handle a few small maintenance items before the last 900 or so miles to the islands. The plan was to make this run with just a single stop in Gibraltar. First, though, we had one last bit of business to take care […]
Baxter, the freezer dog
We’re back in the heat of Spain after a nice, cool break in the Alps. Yesterday was a particularly hot, windless day, with the temp in the cabin at a rather oppressive 94F. Baxter was pretty unhappy about it, panting and lethargic. Then, I hit upon a brilliant idea! The freezer didn’t have anything in […]
Cruising the Med in summer, being written from the Alps
I finally got home from my epic stint at work during the first week of July, rejoining Jenny and RS in Gibraltar. On tap was a mini-cruise of the W. Med. A few stops in the Islas Balaeres, then some cruising in Corsica and Sardinia. We had been warned by those who had gone before […]
The cost of freedom
As most of you know, we’re planning a westbound transat this winter. For only the 2nd time since 1992, I’ll be someplace other than at sea in Alaska in the middle of winter, preferring to spend a couple of months in the Caribbean on our way to Seattle instead. I’m not sure if I’m going […]
Living the Dream
Home is where the heart is, they say. Funny, because occasionally I catch myself talking about home, sometimes referring to Rocket Science, or to Aachen, Germany, or to Seattle. Which leads me to today’s topic – the realities of ‘living the dream’ you don’t hear about so much. When the freezer broke the other day […]