Position: 37°58’05.3″N 75°14’12.0″W Grey-blue crags ripple as filtered moonlight radiates through the clouds high above Aleta. Splashing water, a turbulent pool washes away behind me, broken by an occasional crash of shimmering sea spray from the bow. As far as …
Position: 38°19’42.6″N 76°27’31.7″W We found Aleta where we’d left her, at Zahniser’s Marina, in Solomons, Maryland. Our work order had largely been completed, and with few surprises and a hefty bill we were ready to leave the dock and carry …
Life on Aleta isn’t all beer and skittles. Sometimes we have to do the hard work of indulging in pop culture, if only to keep the topics of conversation from becoming too stale. Or, indeed, to avoid conversation altogether. Here …
We said goodbye to Annie on Tuesday. It was her time. Her kidneys had failed her and she was in near constant pain. Pain that we were treating with Tramadol and Gabapentin. Annie never complained and was never without a …
Position: 47°51’16.5″N 119°07’45.9″W With 325 million-odd people (or 325 million odd people) in the United States, we’ve been wondering in the past couple of weeks where everyone is. Making our way across the country and stopping in some of the …
Position: WEST Coast Hazy Having committed to a nomadic lifestyle, we have been land-based for the past three weeks running errands and living off the largesse of friends and family alike. After arriving at Solomons, Maryland, we placed Aleta in …
Position: ROCKY HORROR Carol looks for directions – and gets more than she bargained for…
“…and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, then that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of heaven?” – Alexandre Dumas, …
