Eight-Bit Hoarder
Position: 1994 I’m a hoarder. I admit it. It’s not pretty, but there you have it. You might not know it at first glance. After all I live on a boat with about 350 square feet of space to put …
2024: It’s About Time
Star Date: -299000.0000317098 Here we are at the end of another Gregorian calendar year. I prefer the Julian calendar. After all it was named after my brother. It has been a lifelong disappointment knowing that a calendar named for Gregory, …
Time and Tides
Position: 48°50’08.4″N 3°05’05.6″W I’m late this week. I’m often late putting fingers to keyboard ahead of this blog’s self-imposed deadline. I almost said ‘capricious’ deadline, but the deadline serves a purpose. After all, one must have some discipline, however crapulous. …
Photos: Who’s the Bosque?
Position: 35°12’31.8″N 106°36’54.8″W Not who’s the bosque, dummy! The question is, where’s the bosque? And the answer is wherever the Spanish say there’s a forest. Down in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the bosque clings to the Rio Grande River like a …
Motorcycle Diaries: Three Days in Eastern Oregon
Position: 45° 31’23.03”N 122° 40’35.34”W What does it take to be a great adventurer? Bear Grylls is a great adventurer. You know the type: fearless, multi-talented, outdoorsman, skins snakes alive, never sleeps by the same river twice, dashing and completely …
Marlon’s Guide to Sailing (for dogs)
Hi Guys! Marlon here! I wanted to let you all know that I’m enjoying my retirement from seadog life. Being a landlubber again has its benefits: no flappy sails, no heaving to for a poo, and plenty of time with …
Rogue Waves
Position: Anywhere at Sea Perhaps the greatest challenge for ocean-going seafarers is the convoluted nature of weather and waves. Wind, air pressure, temperature, currents, land masses, the gravitational pull of the moon and the contours of the seabed all mix …
Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell
Position: 49°51’49.7″N 6°24’34.4″W Let’s continue our periodic series on famous sea captains with a portrait of Sir Cloudesley Shovell. Not the retro-Metal band, but the man behind history’s greatest name for an Admiral. A snappy name is not, however, the …
The Cupcake Years
Communications Dogs don’t speak human. Therefore, to have a healthy relationship, humans have to learn to speak dog. That’s just the way it is. I was lucky. I had a great teacher in Banjo, our late Border Collie/Australian Shepherd rescue. …