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We are enjoying the Lake House.  Visiting with good friends we haven’t seen in ages around the lake, riding in the golf cart, the semi cool spring weather is such a difference from the 4AM get ups and a 20 minute drive into the middle of an oil refinery that spits out sour smells and steam…..  After […]

SYL left Destin this afternoon for points South!  By the direction they are taking it seems the Keys may even be their target.  The best thing about leaving from Destin is you can bail out anywhere along the West coast.  With all the trials Mark and Julie have had, I hope they don’t feel the […]

The Intracoastal Canal is regreted by some and detested by others, I kind of like it. I grew up on the Sabine River so running the river is an elemental part of my “good memory” bank.  I have great youthful memories of water skiing for miles on end with my brothers  behind my old 85 Mercury on […]

Yesterday SYL started this season’s adventure…without us.  We have friends that we have hired to take SYL to Florida.  Rusty’s job is not going to be over until later in March so we decided to have SYL delivered so we can make it to the Exuma’s and still have plenty of time before hurricane season […]

Life has changed, I can no longer call my mom on the phone and talk about things… ask her advice or hear her voice.  In the normal order of life death happens to everyone but it’s certainly life altering.  My current sober attitude is probably more about working lots of hours under stress, but I’m hoping […]

I have always remembered the “riddle of the sphinx” from studying in high school Sophocles’s tragedy Oedipus the King.  I don’t know why that left such an impression on me but it did.  In the story there was a monster that guarded an entrance and to enter you must solve the “riddle of the sphinx”.  If you […]

Rusty is in the critical phase of the TA, which starts February 3. He can’t talk or think about cruising right now, he has to be totally focused on work. I, however, find myself increasingly thinking about our departure. Today, I started my cruising menus so I can get started on my provisioning list. We […]

Peeking carefully around the corner I can see the possibility of long warm days listening to XM music holding a tall glass of adult beverage while standing 10 feet from the sandbar in waist deep water under the bow of my boat…   I can almost see that perfect “cookie” of a day in my future ~ Waking up when […]

Some of our cruising buddies are heading East for the Bahamas and beyond and it’s making us jealous.  At work I have to focus 100% on what I’m doing and not let the “call of the wild” enter my conscious mind for too long. It’s not a problem to think back on trips we have made and talk about them with others… spend […]

Christmas always means new boat parts around me…..  Woo hoooo!  I got a new mainsail and lots of cool stuff for my sailboat.   We spent time and money on the boat when we first got it so even on our first big trip… she was nice.  Since then we have more than kept up with […]