words from the wanderers

Cape Cod, MA USA … If you spend enough time as a cruising sailor, sooner or later you’ll have to deal with a hurricane or post-tropical cyclone. It’s not like you go looking for trouble, but once in a while trouble comes looking for you.  Hurricane...

Block Island, RI USA … After four years of being stuck in the Chesapeake, first because of the “pandemic” and then because life got in the way of adventure, we are back sailing.  We left the fuel dock in Edgewater, Maryland on Tuesday at noon with...

McCall, Idaho USA … Excited to ring in a new year from our winter wonderland here in McCall! We managed to have -15F nights and barely above 0F days, followed by rainy days, all within the span of a week as this season’s crazy winter weather...

McCall, Idaho We are finally (we hope) looking at the backside of the collective insanity that has put numerous boundaries on our pursuit of happiness in the past two years. The dreaded bat flu felled us well before it was a topic on the nightly news,...