Movin’ Out ! 

Movin’ Out ! 

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...

Prepositional Phases

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,...

I Want This, I Need That

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...

Look On the Bright Side 

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...

Pinch Me, I’m Dreaming

   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...