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Year: 2013

Sea Sickness

Beware, the title of this post is not a metaphor for longing for the sea or anything poetic like that. This post is really about seasickness, the puking kind. You have been warned. Imagine you are in the middle of a packed dining room with a large oval tray full of plates of quesadillas, burritos, …read more

Posted on December 21, 2013August 18, 2018 by Duwan
Posted in Life on the Water | 1 Comment

West Bay

December 3 – December 5. The sounds of a Calypso crooner singing “Down on the Boardwalk” float over the bay and drift through the hatches. Night has fallen and we are tucked into the v-berth after eating a hot meal, a game of Quiddler, an evening cocktail, and watching our “stories” on the computer. We …read more

Posted on December 20, 2013December 19, 2013 by Duwan
Posted in Life on the Water, New Providence, The Bahamas, West Bay | Make a Comment

Bimini to New Providence

November 30 – December 2. We have a three-day window to get to New Providence. The first two thirds of the trip is across the fairly shallow Great Bahama Bank. The last third is through the Northwest Channel with depths up to 1.5 miles. Our forecast is 15 knots of northeast wind for the first …read more

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Greg
Posted in Life on the Water, New Providence, The Bahamas, West Bay | 1 Comment

Crossing to Bimini 2013

November 26 – November 27. The human mind is a curious thing. One day you’re “living the life” on a sailboat in southern Florida. Then you get it in your mind you want to cross the Gulf Stream over to the Bahamas. You start looking for a weather window with clear skies and southern winds. …read more

Posted on December 9, 2013December 5, 2013 by Greg
Posted in Bimini, Life on the Water, The Bahamas | 2 Comments

Stuart to Miami

November 19 – November 25. Woo Hoo! We’re underway. It’s November 19th. We asked to raise the Roosevelt drawbridge at sunup. We motored out the St. Lucie inlet. And we’re now sailing south in the Atlantic Ocean. Stuart and the Sunset Bay marina are wonderful places. People choose to live there all year. But two …read more

Posted on December 6, 2013December 5, 2013 by Greg
Posted in Lake Worth, Life on the Water, Miami | 1 Comment

Back to Stuart

And so, it’s back to Stuart to live in my folks’ house and get the boat ready for next season. We started by having Blue Wing moved from storage in Indiantown to the work yard there. Here I sanded the bottom, and did some fiberglass patching while Duwan painted the bottom in the warm glow …read more

Posted on December 5, 2013May 17, 2018 by Greg
Posted in Life on the Water Tagged Sailing Friends | 2 Comments

2013 Traveling on the Dirt

For a few days at the end of June we found ourselves more homeless than usual. There was a two day gap in our house sitting schedule so we crammed all of stuff back into our little Honda Civic and headed out of town to do some visiting. Our first stop was at John and …read more

Posted on December 4, 2013August 19, 2018 by Duwan
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2013 Summer in Cabbagetown

Oh no, I’ve lost a chicken! It’s our first house sitting gig of the summer and Peter and Tova and the girls will be back from Italy in two weeks and they’ll be short one egg-laying hen. Where is she?!? It’s early June. We are back in Cabbagetown, where our pet-sitting calendar is lining up. …read more

Posted on November 29, 2013October 14, 2017 by Greg
Posted in Cabbagetown Tagged Cabbagetown | 1 Comment

Back in the Bahamas!

November 27 – 28. It is so good to be back! There is lots to tell about the summer’s adventures and our time in Florida getting ready for this season’s journey. We had a successful trip, but, unfortunately not uneventful, across the Gulf Stream to Bimini Tuesday night which we will write up as soon …read more

Posted on November 28, 2013 by Duwan
Posted in Bimini, Life on the Water, The Bahamas | 6 Comments

From Margaritaville to Magentaville

May 5 – May 11. On a nautical chart or GPS display the most direct route between two points is shown as a magenta colored line. In early May there is a steady stream of cruisers motoring back home, and sports fishermen coming out to the Bahamas. Often there are so many boats following the …read more

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Greg
Posted in Life on the Water, The Abacos, The Bahamas | Make a Comment

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Hey! We're Greg and Duwan. We have been nomads since 2011. We have traveled by sailboat, have house sat across the country, and are currently roaming around in our converted Ford cargo van, Ballena Blanca, exploring all the amazing things the world has to offer. This blog is a chronicle of our adventures and travels. If you enjoy our stories, leave us a comment on a post. If you want to know more about us, click here.

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  • Took a walk the other day with a friend and ran into someone who told us about this pile of
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