What’s In a Name?

What’s In a Name?

Whew! Well, as many of you may know, I finally made it home from my sailing adventure of the Leeward Islands.  There were multitudes of setbacks along the way, and one of them was no wifi to update this blog (which in comparison, was the absolute smallest crisis of...
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...