Today is March 2nd and our plans to get moving are in full swing. It seems that some part of each conversation is about the impeding departure. We are collecting boxes and making lists. This past Monday we spent several hours at Sam’s Club talking about provisioning options and ideas. We will not buy any […]
Tillers
I spent about a week on the boat in January and made some notes, gathered some ideas, most importantly I shipped back the tiller…
Perspective
I was thinking how long the winter will be, how much skiing and playing I will be able to get in. Then POW! I have a boat and all of a sudden mid-April is not far away, in fact it seems like next week.
Guess what I bought…
It’s official, yesterday at 3:30 I bought a boat. She is the big sister of Bernard Moitessier’s Tamata. At 36 feet and 14 tons, she is just what I have spent these past few years looking for. She was built in Hawaii by Hutton Marine. She has been to the South Pacific and back, then […]
Homeward Bound – List in Hand
We where the Corn Brothers. Sweet Corn (that’s me) and Cream Corn (Darin). Affectionately know as Sweetie and Creamy. How we ended up with such a silly set of nick names is point of history that we often debate.
Slingshots, Mistakes and the Seventh Inning Stretch
I have reached the farthest point from home I shall be.
Insomnia – Again
So again I find myself awake at 3A.M. Though across the street from me is a Waffle House.
Leg Work
Traveling at such a pace with the motion of the water, the motion of the boat strips me of all pretense, strips me to my core, and at the center of me I find wonder. Total amazement with the world around me.
Insomnia
So I sit here and wonder what the sunrise will look like. I hope it is pretty.
On the Road – On the Hunt
Columbia, Missouri. A nice college town. I have landed in the center of the university district, at what must be the half way point in my journey cross country. The time is passing quickly. Hard to believe that I will be in DC tomorrow. Just 2 days ago it was difficult to conceive of this […]