POSITION: Leaning In Life planning. A thing that life planners advocate, and few people bother doing. Perhaps that accounts for the vast numbers of life planners with second jobs waiting tables or mowing lawns. Well, I don’t know if that’s …
Position: 45°37’26″N 122°40’42″W It’s only been four and a half months, Lauren reminded me. I thought it was six, and that we’d more than passed our sell-by date. After all, fish and house guests smell after three days. Then I …
Position: 37° 35′ 49”N 0° 58′ 48”W Easter. Holy week. Everyone is out on the town, and we haven’t seen this many people in Cartagena since the celebration of the three kings arrival by boat for Epiphany in 2020. Just …
Position: 37° 35′ 49”N 0° 58′ 48”W The last few weeks have flown by for reasons that can’t be fully explained by your devoted correspondent. Pushing our US departure date out by a month meant C. Northcote Parkinson‘s “…observation that …
Position: 51°22’55.8″N 2°21’30.5″W We timed our return to Aleta for a wedding stopover in the UK. Clearing customs in record time, we soon hopped in the world’s smallest rental car (a Toyota AYGO. So named because drivers constantly mutter, Ay …
Position: 47°55’22″N 124°38’24″W Crunchy Pacific Northwest virtue signallers all drive Teslas. Every one of them. Without exception. How do I know? Because we recently rented a Tesla in order to flip off any gas guzzler we deemed unworthy of common …
No Luddites Here Never let it be said that the crew of Aleta are a bunch of Luddites. Perish the thought! Not only do we embrace fancy navigation technologies like AIS, radar, and satellite communications, as an inherently lazy bunch …
Position: 38°35’01″N 28°42’04″W Captain’s Log, Supplemental*: Our Atlantic Crossing was magical. I tucked a reef in the main when we set off from Marigot Bay, St. Martin, and never bothered with it again until we reached Horta, about 2,200 miles …
Position: 37°17’43″N 37°28’44″E The earthquakes in eastern Türkiye and northern Syria were devastating and the horrifying costs in human lives keeps rising. Damage spreads across a broad swathe of Türkiye’s most historical areas, areas we spent weeks exploring this time …
