The Antidote to Northwest Winter

How many Northwesterners would like to be doing this right now? Raise your mittens!
Photo of boys playing in Maui surf by Mari Hotchkiss.
How many Northwesterners would like to be doing this right now? Raise your mittens!
Photo of boys playing in Maui surf by Mari Hotchkiss.
One year ago today Tom and I declared our personal Independence Day, cast off the dock lines and headed out to cruise aboard Sunshine, our 32 foot Freedom. Since that day we’ve sailed to every state on the east coast of the U.S.
San Juan County Park We’re staying home for Memorial Day, so we took off last weekend instead, for a short break on San Juan Island. This is where we stayed. Except – here’s how it looks now. Curious as to what happened to that beautiful house? Hollywood happened. The house in the picture above was…
How We Came to be Living Aboard in Boston in the Winter Not long ago, I said publicly that we would not be in Boston for Christmas. Which led to another excellent episode of word eating. I really never imagined we’d be living aboard in the winter in such a cold place, and neither of…
Most people, when they take a winter cruise, hop on a plane and then board ship in a tropical port. A Christmas Cruise Bartlett style is a little different. We were pining to get south, but work kept us in New England very late and we thought we were stuck in the north for another…
How to find great food when traveling – look for something else
Forgive Us, but the Term Intracoastal Waterway is Foreign to West Coast Lives. Even when we visited Virginia in 2009, the ICW didn’t make an impression. We’d taken a side trip then down to Kitty Hawk, NC. Along the way we stopped to walk along an interesting slough that trickled under overhanging oaks. What was…