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As our roadtrip across country continues, we headed from New Mexico into southwestern Colorado to visit Mesa Verde National Park.  Jim had never been there before, and I was there once with my brother and parents about 27 years ago – with lots of …

We are thoroughly enjoying our adventures as we drive across the country.  We’ve been making good progress and we’re actually in Idaho this morning, but it will take several entries to catch up on some of the wonderful places that we’ve stopped to…

We’re temporarily homeless while ADVENTURES makes her way up the Pacific coast, but we’re trying to make good use of the chance to see some new as well as familiar places as we drive across the US.
After spending time with friends in Fort Lauderdale, …

One day we hope to transit the Panama Canal on our own bottom, but in the meantime it’s still very cool to see her make the trip.  As we’re driving across country we’ve been watching for the EUROGRACHT (our ship) on marinetraffic.com.  Here i…

There are many stories and photos from this winter season in Marathon that we want to catch up on, but that will be the topic for later blog entries.
The big news to report is that ADVENTURES has been safely loaded aboard the 450′ Dutch freighter EURO…

We had a great cruise into our beloved Florida Keys.  We anchored behind Pumpkin Key next to the very exclusive Ocean Reef Club at the north end of Key Largo so we could jump out to the ocean side of the Keys for the rest of the trip to Marathon.&…

South Florida is where the really big yachts hang out, and boats like ours are dinghies compared to the behemoths. 
We stopped to visit good friends in Jupiter, and were able to tie up in an empty slip – between two 120′ yachts.  Another DeFe…

This trip south has been about trying new places and doing some of the "I always wanted to…" things in familiar places.  We’ve stopped in St. Augustine a few times before, but it was always a quick visit.  This time we were determ…

Some of you may know that we’re moving (with ADVENTURES) out to the Pacific Northwest in the spring so we can cruise the San Juans and Alaska for a few years.  So this trip down the east coast is the last one for a very long time, and that makes i…

We’ve been so busy either heading south or visiting places and friends that the blog has fallen behind.  In reality we’re much farther south, but we saw and did so many things along the way that it’s worth sharing.
After the weather finally settle…