…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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Category: James’ Blog
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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Flash Cooling
Like most folks in these latitudes we were quite literally hunkering down for the dog days when, like a cruel glimmer of hope, the quicksilver took a southern dive! …And[…]
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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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Moving through space
We’ve been here before… Remember the video-meme of the sun and the local planetary system hurling through space and leaving a spiraling, conical wake through spacetime, well… I don’t mean[…]
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Just a perfect springtime sail
Hitting the ground running meant feeling almost as if the last five months didn’t exist, almost… Of course, the fact that every bite I take doesn’t feel like an ice-pick[…]
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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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