Other Water Fronts
Just returned from a wedding in California where we visited three kinds of water, not to worry about it, or tell people what to do with it, or pontificate about it, but just to do the best things possible with it:
Just returned from a wedding in California where we visited three kinds of water, not to worry about it, or tell people what to do with it, or pontificate about it, but just to do the best things possible with it:
My anxiety mirrored the wind, a constant vigilance, accompanied by gusts of reaction to every stimulus. I worried about hurricanes, dragging anchor, the relentless wind, high waves pinning us in port, squalls, running out of water, running out of food, not being able to sleep. I had to work on the vital skill of letting the days go by.
I’ve sailed away from Puget Sound for a holiday in Portland, Oregon. Though the water here is river rather than salt, Portlanders (Porlandians? Portlandites?) are very connected to their waterfronts. The Willamette, which runs through downtown is a big activity center both on land and on the water. The Columbia, a major shipping waterway is…
Prologue If the streets of New England had still been iced over on January 8th, we probably wouldn’t have taken the drive to Cape Cod for our anniversary. Instead we’d have taken the train into Boston for a nice dinner. And that would have been a shame. Since Provincetown lies at the far northern tip…
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.
While in Pureto Vallarta for a soccer tournament this past week, I repeatedly enjoyed sitting in the traffic jam that can result from extreme stormwater flooding. Rains took out the northbound span of the Ameca River bridge back in September, when, in the equivalent of a 100 year storm, the area received a month’s worth…