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Recovering from sailing
I am still recuperating from my trip and only gradually sorting
out what happened. I hadn’t done stairs or hills in so
long that the abrupt change to climbing in and out of
the boat set off tendinitis that only got more and
more aggravated over time. By the end of the trip, I
could hardly walk. The first […]
Guadalajara
We arrived on Sunday night to a completely changed environment. We left a brown, dusty city and returned to a lush, green tropical one. What a difference the rain makes. We were glad to have finally arrived at a destination where we will stay for more than two weeks. Somehow our luggage had expanded […]
Stuck in Portland
Jim really didn’t want a layover on the way to Mexico. He was willing to fly overnight to avoid the 2-3 hours stuck in an airport waiting for the next flight. So, our scheduled departure was 12:30 am on Tues. We remembered the Tuesday departure. Only 12:30 am is very early in the morning […]
Stranger in a Foreign Land
As the plane took off, the young German girl in the seat next to me reached into her back pack and pulled out a gift wrapped package. Carefully, she lifted the tape and unwrapped it. Inside was a handmade book with someting written on each page. Silently, great tears began to roll down her […]
Land Legs
With great foresight, Jim scheduled two days for us ashore so we could regain our land legs. The sensation of land swaying beneath our feet has finally stopped as we find that we are just happy to lie in bed and enjoy the stillness of no movement. We are catching our breath before catching […]
Johannes
After rain showers on Saturday night, the sky cleared and the sun came out. We opened up all the hatches and portholes to freshen and air the boat. We did our laundry and started to organize our belongings. It was time to prepare to leave Ranidan for the winter. Of course, we had brought […]
Fiskebackskil
From Lyseskil we took a medium size ferry across the fjord to a very small town on the opposite shore, Fiskebackskil. It was great to preview where we would stay and to make reservations. While it has given us a lot of freedom to just choose our harbor as we go along, it has […]