Back on the Coast --- the one to the west.

Finally returned to California at the end of November and I actually got to work on my boat.  I suspect a few people think she (the boat) is a figment of my imagination.  Actually, no, it's real.

My plan is have her in the water by Christmas, sailing by New Years.  She is to be rechristened as "Jasmine".  "Aguila" kept my tongue in a tangle.

Now would be the time to sell her, all pretty and clean, but having a boat makes no sense from any angle so why would I do something that wreaked of logic!

Along the Eastern Seaboard

I parked at my brothers in Virginia for a few weeks in August / September.  He has a boat, you see, and we worked on it while I was there.  Working on boats just seems natural to me, right along with achy muscles and shorn knees. It turned out pretty nice.

I drove down to North Carolina in mid September and guess what I ended up doing there!

By October I'm meandering back to the West Coast ----

Pictures out the back door -- Skidaway Island, Georgia

Hanging out on the St John River, Jacksonville, Florida

Just another RV Park- out my back door -- Kentucky

I'm in Las Vegas today ---- Las Vegas, New Mexico, 

trundling along the I40 back to California.

Been a while since I've been there.  

Wonder if I got any mail?

Somewhere in the Caribbean

I returned from the Caribbean a couple of days ago and realized I left something behind ---
the Caribbean!

We chartered a 42 foot catamaran (the one pictured) for 28 days. We wandered around the British Virgin Islands and found some sweet anchorages. We had about one tropical depression a week which made for some great (and challenging) sailing.

Full Moon Parties include Fire Dancers.


Sunsets were run of the mill.

Well, I am back and now I'm headed to Texas.

Kansas Revelations

I've learned a few things while staying here Kansas.
There's more to this state than just tornado alerts,
thunderstorms with ear splitting thunder and
frequent rain and / or high winds.

Did you know Ferrets sleep funny.

or

that Bearded Dragons like to watch TV

I've also noticed that although

Kansas has Buffalo, they
appear to be VERY thin.
Look closely.

A truely amazing place.

The things I do not know!

4-29-10: The High Plains of Kansas

It's a day or so away from May and the wind is drifting down from the
Dakota's, across Nebraska and gusting through Kansas.
I'm in Manhattan, Kansas, home of Tiger Woods father and voted the best place to retire young by Forbes magazine in 2006. Fort Riley is 20 minutes away and Kansas State University is right downtown. Imagine the meld of academic and army,
armor and intellect, fatigues and Billabong shorts.
I'm visiting my son and family, freshly retired from an Army career. I unloaded my camper in in his driveway and it squats there giving the neighbors something for speculation.

God, I do love a good rumor.

I cut my Yosemite camp host gig short to be here. It was a bit of a change in environments.

What a difference 1600 miles makes.