In 1994 I finished college and went to work at Oracle Corp. Also starting that year was Bill, a recent college graduate from Georgia. We…

I’m still adjusting to life in retirement, and occasionally have a fear that I’ll have nothing to do during these cold and rainy Seattle winter…

Our cat Killer was a very feisty tortie who died about six months before we set sail to go cruising in 2006. So we decided…

After our visits with the sisters in Oujda, it was time to take a road trip and see more of Morocco. We caught the train…

There are a lot of places in the world to choose to visit, and I’ve been lucky to see a few of them. So why…

One of our favorite traditions in the Pacific NW that marks the passing of summer is the Wooden Boat Festival in Port Townsend, held annually…

That’s the question we have been asked several times since we sailed home in mid August. There are so many answers – it was fun,…

We left Quait Bay on a gray and cold morning, with rain squalls still rolling through from the night before. We had not noticed any…

We stopped and fueled and watered on our way out of Tahsis, then headed out towards the mouth of Nootka Sound. We were deep in…

These are all names of places we’ve heard about from our friends Steve & Elsie for years. We’ve known they were far away, hard to…