Position: 50°59’05.4″N 11°19’10.3″E We are in pursuit of Chamonix! I use the term pursuit lightly. Chamonix has not in fact moved. It is right where it was 1,000 years ago. However, after a lot of driving in the past week …
Position: 57°21’23.5”N 11°58’32.4”E For the fourth time in two hours Carol said, “Have I told you how happy I am to be leaving Landskrona?” I nodded in agreement, to both her explicit and implicit comments. Having waited a week for …
Hang on to your hats, it’s time for an entertainment update! It’s been a moment and we’ve been gorging on all manner of delectable morsels. We offer these micro-reviews to tantalize your taste buds. As always, our ratings are entirely …
Position: 59°19’31.6″N 18°04’15.3″E With all roads from Ullverad leading to Stockholm that’s where we pointed our little car. Sweden, as Carol said a few times, is much bigger than you think. And much emptier. Thick forests on both sides of …
Position: 55°36’50.0″N 13°01’13.8″E With Aleta’s mast unstepped for the first time in seven years, we took the opportunity to replace her VHF antenna and Windex (the sailboat’s equivalent of a rooster on top of a barn that shows the wind’s …
Position: 58°39’58.3″N 13°51’51.0″E It’s been quite a week. Quite a couple of weeks in fact. Fans of this blog will be happy to know we are back on the road and exploring exotic and out of the way places again. …
Position: 29°57’19.8″N 90°04’06.5″W It is not entirely clear when common sense died. Perhaps sometime between the invention of the nanny state and the concurrent exploitation of tortious liability for the benefit of hucksters. Harms, real and invented, are big business …
Position: UPWARD DOG Despite what the folks at NASA might tell you, failure is an option. Otherwise, why would experimental aircraft have ejector seats? Or why would prototype rockets have a self-destruct mechanism to initiate a RUD (Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly)? …
Position: 35°11’09.2″N 106°28’52.5″W Around 10PM I take Bodhi for his late night walk. Turning left out of the front door we head down the steep drive and turn right. No matter when the sun sets, at this altitude darkness falls …
