By the numbers, there are about 40 of us onboard this little bluewater ark, bobbing and swirling our way north to Alaska. 18 officers, ABs and engineers, I think, and […]

I wonder if it ever gets old? Oh god, I dearly hope not, any more than would the first whiff of a rose in spring, or the magic of a […]

It was like a game of peekaboo: up on the trail, blue skies with crashing blue ocean below us. Down on the bluffs? Swirling gray mist all around. Back up […]

I’d been on the verge of saying that, once again I’ve gone off gallivanting and the world has fallen apart in my absence, but that’s not quite right. I mean, […]

Eugene’s is often the first human voice I hear on travel days. He’s young but has refinement and style that hearkens back to an earlier era of travel. In his […]

Back stateside now after an entire (whew!) month exploring the antipodes. This post is just a few pics from our final days kicking around Sydney – sorry, no stories here. […]

I guess I’ve not been writing because, while we’ve continued to enjoy our tromp around the antipodes (more time in Hobart, then Melbourne and now Sydney, as we begin our […]

To be fair, it didn’t rain the whole time we were out on the Gordon River Cruise. No, part of the time it was hailing. Okay, okay, there were (brief) […]

Yesterday – or was it the day before? – in our perambulations, D and I realized we were playing a game: as we navigated down the lower reaches of kunanyi […]