We had planned our snorkeling adventure with Caveman Tours (Caveman pictured above) on Tuesday. Tuesday and Wednesday had winds of 21 and 24 knots respectively. We opted for waiting until a calmer day. Our first stop was to feed the Tarpons. Next we were lucky enough to see a manatee. They can stay underwater for […]
Carmen told us that if there is only one tour, this is the one. We took off in the morning with four of her other guests, a Brazilian couple and two young Romanian women. First Stop: Fuel. We were picked up at Carmen’s dock, then stopped at one of the docks. There was a lot […]
We went to the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal today. Quick reminder: France tried to build the canal in late 1800’s, and it almost bankrupted them. U.S. took over in 1903, but not before they basically sent gunships down and told Colombia that either they would grant Panama independence and get a bunch of […]
On Friday afternoon we finally went fishing. There had been a series of weather delays and assorted issues, but we made it out onto the water. Our guide was Danny, and the boat owner was Juan. We high-tailed it out to a bunch of islands and rocks soutwest of Manuel Antonio. I had asked Danny […]
In the heat of travel negotiations last Spring, Ellen told our friend Anne that we might not make it to visit her and Phil the particular dates she suggested due to other commitments. Anne quickly dissuaded us from that position by disclosing that we would not be visiting only Anne and Phil. Mark and Nina […]
We took the train to Copenhagen from Hamburg. This was our first experience of combining the train with a ferry, as they put the train cars on the ferry, and sailed across from Germany to Denmark. This was also our first experience with a hybrid ferry, that captures excess power from the engines and uses […]
What is one of the first things to be done in Cambridge, England? Why, punting on the River Cam of course. We decided to hop over the channel and visit Lisa, our travel buddy from Portugal, and Ben, her partner, for a bit. Friday afternoon we headed down to visit central Cambridge, lunch, and punt […]
Last weekend our good friends Beth and John invited us to their family lake cabin in celebration of John’s birthday. The cabin is on Red Cedar Lake, near Birchwood, Wisconsin. We biked, boated, talked, ate, drank wine, went for pizza, and generally had an all-around good time. Truth be told, there were actually five of […]
Sometimes destiny seems to be a bit more apparent than others. We heard that space had opened up at a motel for a reasonable rate on the weekend of the 4th of July. Then we heard from our friends Ann and Steve that they had chartered our old sailboat Esprit on Saturday afternoon. As it […]
We were able to enjoy the Bayfield fireworks from the perfectly located unit that our friends Steve and Ann, their daughter Joan, and her husband Colin. The balcony overlooked the commercial marina. People started to show up hours before, camping out on the marina bank. For those of you unfamiliar, there is a bit of […]
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