Weird Things Happen at Sea

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Weird things sometimes happen at sea. They always seem to happen at night too. Far and away our strangest encounter at sea came about three days out from the Canary Islands en route to the Caribbean. We left about two days behind the ARC fleet so didn’t expect to run … Read More

Going On

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Ali has had full-time kid duty the past few days which means lots of entertaining. The park is right across the street so she’s been spending a lot of time over there. Neighborhood walks are popular. The mall, which has double strollers shaped like race cars, is also a favorite. … Read More

How to Write a Cruising Blog

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You can’t throw a coconut in a marina these days without hitting a boat with a blog. Just insert the boat name in between www. and .com and you’ll find the website. Everyone has a blog. World cruisers, every single damn one of them blogs. Unfortunately they do not blog … Read More

Peter?

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I mentioned my mom’s neighbor Mildred the other day. Well today I finally spotted her out in the yard and went over to tell her thank-you for the wonderful Christmas stockings. We said our hellos and I thanked her and made small talk about her flowers and her home’s new … Read More

Be Nice

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My cousin came down from Tacoma with his two girls, nine and eleven, today. They may be way older than Ouest, but she didn’t care one bit. And the girls were exceedingly nice and super patient with her. It was obvious their mom had given them the full run down … Read More

Betty

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Since Mexico we’ve been telling Ouest that she could make oatmeal cookies with Grammy. She’s been very excited by the prospect and today she finally got to do it.

Dog Walker

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I’ve probably already mentioned how excited Ouest gets by the prospect of taking the dog for a walk. “Hey Ouest, wanna go for a walk?” “Binton too? Binton too? Purple rope?” That’s code for is Winston coming, and can we use the purple leash? My mom’s neighborhood is full of sweet … Read More

Small

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Our buddy Nick is in town. It’s funny, we originally met because of the website years and years ago, and only later did we discover our mothers live eight blocks away from each other. Now we’re writing a book together. I know it’s something I say all the time, but … Read More

Goddess

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We went to a Bum friend’s house for dinner tonight. The RVGoddess took great care of us on the food and drink front and we had some nice conversation with new IRL, in real life, friends. It’s not often we spend an evening with another blogger. For the first time … Read More

People!

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Today we were walking to the park when a dog came bounding up to us. Ali and I could see right away that it was a friendly young pup, but Ouest didn’t see it that way. She saw an animal about the same height as her racing straight at her. … Read More

Dumb Question

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As many of you already know, I’ve been working on a new book in collaboration with a good friend of mine the past few months. Over the years, and especially as the years have worn on, the most frequently asked question Ali and I get is some variation of, “How … Read More

New Book

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My mom and I had some business today at her attorney’s office and took Ouest along with us. We walked in the door and were saying our hellos when I looked over and saw Ouest had backed herself up behind the chairs against the wall of the small sitting area … Read More