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Last Monday we brought my Daddy Joe home for his final journey.   He was in the log house he and my mother built with their own hands, near the pond they dug, the apple orchard he planted and nurtured and the literally hundreds of blooming plants and producing fruit trees that he and mom have […]

My sweet Linda is back on the boat…. SYL is no longer a man camp.   She has been off the boat since Destin.  We arrived back at the boat last night, fired up the XM radio and enjoyed the sunset at Bayland Marina together.  Linda will spend her day visiting her dad 45 minutes away, before she goes I’m […]

Currents and the wind were in my favor on Good Friday.   I expected to arrive at Bolivar about dark and spend the night there, but we not only made Baytown… my crew (Dean and Katie) drove me to Buna to my car and I drove an hour and a half up to the lake.  My day started […]

It’s 6:45PM   SYL is tied up, the AC is on, I have made my dinner for the evening  (a huge sandwich) I’m sitting here eating & enjoying getting to my destination before dark…..  Even though I have a day and a half to go before I’m there, I feel so much like I’m home.   I previously docked […]

Today will be a long day, but not too bad.  I’ll make about 100 miles today on my way from the 105 mile marker to the Mermentau River (the 202).   Here’s the plan… we’ll see how “the plan” holds up the rest of this trip: Tonight I’ll motor 1 or 2 hours into darkenss to get to […]

I woke up about 5 to almost constant light flashing in the hatch above me.  I assumed it was a tug boat shining his search light over here to see what I was… but it was too “flashy” and inconsistent for that so I raised up in bed – opened the hatch and stuck my […]

I’m in the middle of the Louisiana swamp tonight, all alone on SYL.  I left Houma singlehanding the boat to get her stationed in Baytown for the upcoming job.  The sounds out here are amazing….  owls chatting to each other in the distance…  tree frogs and birds saying good night to each other.  I’m about […]

Job placement this year has been a circus so far. Originally Corpus looked like the place, then the company decided I needed to go to Carthage Texas…. then the day before I was to go on site that job was cancelled!  I had consigned myself to the Carthage job and even found a few positives to […]

Well I went to the doc when I got home but have no results back from all the tests yet…. I’m now almost over whatever it was I had.  I guess I outlasted my belly ache.  I think being here at the lake must have fixed me all by itself…..  Without being too graphic, I have […]

Well… not really “home” but today I decided to leave the boat in Houma Louisiana for a few weeks and finish the trek by car.   The best of the 4 good reasons to leave the boat here is that my next job may be in this area.  I have been considering this move for several days but didn’t […]