Position: 38°47’14.6″N 9°23’27.7″W The Palácio Nacional da Pena is a shining “jewel in the crown” of Portuguese royalty. That Portuguese royalty, like Britain’s, were Germans is neither here nor there. The where, since you asked, is in Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, …
Position: 38°24’50.5″N 9°13’23.9″W “Aleta, Aleta, Aleta, Billaroo, Billaroo, Billaroo.” The VHF awoke with an unmistakably Australian accent. Twenty-four hours into our passage, we approached our final leg to Lisbon by rounding Cape Espichel and crossing the depths of the Lisbon …
Pop Quiz! You have ten minutes to complete this quiz. Good luck! You are motoring late at night towards the lights of Málaga. A vessel appears off your port side, but not on your Automated Identification System. Is it: A …
Position: 36°31’47″N 3°52’08″W As the sun rose over Aleta’s stern and Carol arose from her slumbers, it was time to change watches. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a dolphin and called down to my first mate. …
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 “commonplace observation …
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 …
