Position: 31°29’18.1″N 9°46’27.8″W Like so many young girls I fell in love with horses long before I rode one. My childhood bestie, Ginger, shared the same obsession. We spent countless hours playing with our beloved collection of plastic horses, lost …
Position: 60°23’59.5″N 5°19’09.2″E Ginger and I have been friends since we were eight-year-olds living at West Point. She eventually moved to Albuquerque giving us the opportunity to reconnect whenever I’d be out visiting my parents. Plus it was great having …
Position: 38°58’07″N 1°15’53″E Our anchorage, Port des Torrent, was peaceful, but rolly and I’d had a restless night’s sleep. The quiet of the morning was punctured by enthusiastic calls of “Buenas Dias! Buenas Dias!”, outside of the porthole. We popped …
Spain is one of the hardest hit countries in total number of cases of Covid-19. Ranking second in the world, after the US, it has the highest number of coronavirus deaths relative to population. More health care workers have been …
When we set sail on this grand adventure, we discussed every potential scenario we could think of. Global pandemic and being locked into Aleta was not on the list. We are now almost 14 days into an indefinite and very …
The Why I have wanted a tattoo all my life, but the stars never aligned. I couldn’t find the right design, or the right artist, or I was too busy. All that changed a couple of weeks ago. Finally, with …
The history of flamenco is complex and fascinating. Many of the details of its development are lost in antiquity, but what is certain is modern flamenco finds its roots in the Roma Gypsy culture of Andalusia in southern Spain. During …
Position: 37° 35′ 49”N 0° 58′ 48”W December 31st, 2017 we were holed up in Charleston, South Carolina, victims of the Polar Vortex, the Arctic cold blast that brought weather “extremes off the scale” to most of the east coast. …
The Picos de Europa are a series of dramatic limestone mountains 300 million years in the making. They cross northern Spain between Santander and Gijón for about 20 km. A cavernous gorge runs through the middle. A paradise for mountaineers, …
