Arrived at the Barefoot Resort in N. Myrtle Beach, SC on Sunday, April 25th, by car. It was warm and sunny. Settled in the condo. What a terrific view of the ICW and other loopers that had arrived by boat. The weather was a bit …
Too Much Fun, So Little Time!
Well the dirty deed is done – no get your mind out of the gutter – Doug went and got his hair cut!!! It was a pretty traumatic day for both of us – it had been over two and a half years since his last haircut and we both hated to see his ponytail go -…
Underway Again!!
It is May 1st and we underway!! We are in Titusville (yes, yet again!) after a good, though hot and long day on the water. We had hoped to get to New Smyrna today, but the heat and what turned into an almost 2-hour detour to get fuel at Harbor Town Marina on the Cape […]
Pictures from Boomtown to Houma
This strange looking tug is used for manouvering vessels or barges usually in harbor, it passed by us beforfe we left Boomtown Casino’s bulkhead. A very nice house in near Lafitte about 15 mile West of the Harvey LockThe “Chu Rouge”, complete with un P…
GSSR 2 – Departure from Ashiya
GSSR 2 Underway!
This is just a very short blog entry to let everyone know that we have now left our winter port of Ashiya and have begun the journey that will lead us to Hong Kong.
This is a relatively tiny journey compared to last season’s o…
April 2010 Vero Beach – Melbourne – Cocoa – Daytona – Palm Coast – Jekyll Island – Hilton Head Island Issue #21
This month started with a bang!!! Kate and Steve, full-time cruisers aboard S/V Santih, are friends we met in Charleston 4 years ago. They are on their way north from Miami and stopped for the …
Landfall in Paradise- Fatu Hiva
Emily Grace has dropped anchor after 21 days at sea and is enjoying blessed silence in the Bay of Virgins on the western side of the island of Fatu Hiva. This island was made famous by Thor Heyerdahl's book of the same name and the Bay of Virgins …
Boomtown Casino to Home
We left Boomtown at 7:30 this morning had a good trip back to the home slip in Houma. It did get quite windy during the morning and for the rest of the day. The South winds which are helping to blow the off shore oil spill towards the shoreline somethi…
April Update
Sad to say, we have not been able to spend too much time on the boat during the first quarter. A combination of bad weather, rough water and a busy work schedule did not work in our favor. Being house bound with the business did give me time to return to an old passion […]
Friends and Family in Frigid Florida
As we prepare to rejoin Sojourner on a permanent basis, we depart Orlando with many great memories of a Florida winter that wasn’t at all what we anticipated. We thought keeping Sojourner on the east coast would facilitate more time on her, and we had visions of sharing weekend cruises and overnight anchoring-out adventures with […]