Being underway doesn’t get real until you see this! …Absolutely no land in sight. Okay, okay you’re never really out of sight of land in the Chesapeake Bay except for[…]
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Category: Dena’s Blog Posts
12th Haul Out
…And here we are again in another place altogether doing a thing we know how to do. The big job this time around is the bottom. Wait…that’s always the big[…]
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Living in a place
Every time we start living in a place, our local adventures turn into past ghosts almost immediately. Riding the bike in traffic, hiking across the apartment complex and foraging for[…]
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Sailing; the reason why
…Of course, like all good sailing adventure stories, it has to start out with a project! Right after we got back from India, on our first trip back into Bacon[…]
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A Great Circle
We sailed a great circle over the last week. Not in the traditional sense of navigating along the shortest path, but in the equinoctial Chesapeake sailor’s way. And we looked[…]
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Home again, home again…
We have definitely arrived! Our crew here in the MRE dressed our boat up like an Easter doll for us! The guys at Coastal and Bacon, and our very own[…]
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2 Days at Mahabs
What should we do for James’s birthday? The shopping area can’t hold our attention for long. I know… More stuff to haul 12,000 km… Hmm, the lighter, the better. How[…]
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Meenakshi Amman Temple
If you’re thinking what I was thinking, yes! Meen as in meen kappa (fish curry with boiled tapioca/coconut/tumeric), but in this case, Meenakshi as in fish eyed, an old-fashioned compliment[…]
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Madurai Mad
We arrived in Madurai at nearly midnight, after an emergency dental tightening and a long train ride. First thing, right after we left the train station proper, a young man[…]
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Attukal Pongal
I was riding my bike not long after 8 in the morning on the 11th, heading into town for Attukal Pongal. When an event is the record holder for the[…]
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