South to Cuxhaven

Position: 53°52’29.0″N 8°42’22.5″E Back to adventuring! If you’re going to deny reality (and who doesn’t want to deny reality at the moment?), then sailing is a perfectly plausible excuse for doing so. Our heads are too full of boaty things …

Honoring Bob Kemble

POSITION: 41°23’57.2″N 73°57’58.4″W “Spring at West Point”, Ginger said, “is grey and depressing.” Sure enough, barren trees covered the hills surrounding the United States Military Academy and the cold, cloudy weather felt more like February than mid-April. Only a clutch …

Friendships

Position: 54°18’39.4″N 9°40’56.9″E Friendships form the backbone of our emotional lives. Aesthetes and rock stars may argue that love is life’s spinal column. But love, like time, is fleeting. Even the most passionate relationships will fail if the parties fall …

Der Zwischenzeit

Position: 47°35’22.4″N 122°22’47.4″W Der zwischenzeit: literally ‘the time in between’. In English we would say ‘in the meantime’. I like the literal translation. That’s where we have been for the past couple of weeks. Somewhere between here and there. Our …

Seeking Alfa

Position: 51°10’50.6″N 1°15’43.6″W Date: May 08, 2008 When I arrived at Heathrow Airport yesterday, Hertz had set aside a Ford Mondeo estate for me. (I hope I don’t have to translate ‘estate’ to ‘station wagon’, do I?) It smelled of …

I Will Live in Montana…

Position: 45°40’46.5″N 111°02’34.9″W With the generous help of our friends Diane and Mark we spent the past month in West Seattle dog-sitting for Gus, and, at their insistence, exploring Bozeman, Montana. They sweetened the deal by letting us use their …