by csfifer | Jun 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
Unlike the lyrics to Billy Joel’s song, we may not work in the grocery store, but we are indeed moving out – today! Mitchell has been here tottering around St. Thomas for a month, and I over a week now, and this morning we are finally heading on. In...
by csfifer | Jun 18, 2015 | Uncategorized
No, that’s not a typo. I do not consider myself a knowledgable boater. Maybe perhaps an instinctual boater, or an eager boater, but not necessarily a knowledgable boater. I can pick up a mooring ball, I can usually read the wind on the water,...
by csfifer | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
Need versus Want is a well debated topic when living on a boat – a relatively small space with incredibly limited storage. So far I have resisted most urges, but a few things were deemed by me as ESSENTIAL. First, a day trip over to St. John resulted...
by csfifer | Jun 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
It’s 6:30 am and we awaken in Red Hook harbor to a fuzzy gray veil hanging over St. John and Tortola in the distance. The humidity in the air is somewhere around 300%. The sun is trying with all its might to pierce through the clouds, with little...
by csfifer | Jun 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
Arriving at the Cyril E King Airport in St. Thomas is much like arriving at the airport in Key West: passengers stumble out onto the hot tarmac from planes that have arrived on uncustomarily short runways, are met by generous winds and humidity, and are...