It’s a new year and a new decade. With 20/20 foresight here are our top 10 predictions: Psychiatrists will define a pathological fear of St. Nicholas as Claustrophobia. Orbiting NASA scientists working on zero gravity experiments will accidentally wipe out …
Position: 37° 10′ 35”N 3° 35′ 23”W Olives! Cresting the southern coastal mountains and heading north, olive groves blanket the dry, dusty, and otherwise barren landscape. From a distance, olive trees have all the hallmarks of a cash crop. First, …
Position: 37° 35′ 49″N 0° 58′ 48″W Today marks our third Christmas on Aleta. In 2017 we awoke in Swansboro, Carolina del Norte (as we say here), anchored in a river on the Intra-Coastal Waterway. Later in the day we …
Position: 36° 44′ 26”N 5° 9′ 57”W “You have to see Ronda,” Carol said. “When Tai and I were here a few years ago, we fell in love with the place.” Driving into the city from the east it was …
Position: 37° 52′ 45” N 4° 46′ 47” W My instinctual response upon entering Córdoba’s stunning mosque-cathedral was an overwhelming sense of peace. It is late November and the tourists have thinned out to where I easily found a modicum …
Position: 36° 48′ 51″N 2° 33′ 40″ W The origin of modern Thanksgiving in America is probably apocryphal. As schoolchildren Americans are taught that the Pilgrims celebrated their deliverance to the New World in harmony with an indigenous people. A …
Position: 36° 59′ 4″N 7° 50′ 46″W Over the last year we got pretty good at gunkholing around the Caribbean. Finding anchorages out of the way of local fishing boats, in the lee of impending weather, we’d hang off our …
Position: 38° 43′ 20” N 9° 8′ 21” W Just as Dr. Pangloss is about to prove à priori the Bay of Lisbon was purpose-made for drowning James the Anabaptist, the ship he and his ward Candide are sailing on …
Position: ATLANTIC SPAIN AND PORTUGAL Portugal and Spain have lively street art scenes. There is hardly a public space, or public vehicle, that’s not tagged with slashes of black spray paint. Some are covered in the flowing, garishly coloured letters …
