The locals must have sacrificed enough chickens to the Mayan rain god because the sun finally came out yesterday. Jaime is starting to get into living on Island Time and is hopefully becoming less appetizing to bugs – Jim and I got there a while ago which he attributes to taking garlic pills but I […]
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Tropical Depression
Still here in Placencia, Belize. Tropical Depression Arthur passed through bringing lots of rain and high winds. We recorded 40 knots on the instruments but did fine tied up to the new docks they are building for the Placencia Yacht Club There’s a song called “Just Another Gringo in Belize” that mentions the gringo buying a […]
You better Belize it
Island Time is currently anchored in Placencia Belize. We left the Rio Dulce on Monday and have made our way up here slowly. The picture below shows the winding limestone jungle covered canyon of the Rio Dulce. The weather here is not great for sailing – thunderstorms and winds on the nose – so […]
Welcome to the jungle
We are enjoying our time here on the Rio. We’ve been doing a little work on the boat in the morning and then hanging out for most of day and relaxing. There’s a great hammock in the thatch roof ranchita next to the dock I like to read in and listen to the sound of […]
Rio Dulce, Guatemala
We have made it to the Rio and back to Island Time at Tortugal Marina – www. tortugal.com. The town of Fronteras is close by and features many little stores and open markets to stock up on supplies and food. The main road passes right through town with a choatic mixture of trucks, people, bikes […]
Guatemala
We left Veracruz on 5/10 at 5p and arrived in Chetumal the following day around 2p. The ADO bus was very cold and seemed to have some engine problems as the bus driver stopped several times to do something with the engine. Luckily we did not break down somewhere in the jungle. We left Chetumal […]
Made it to Mexico
Capt. Jim and I finished up an 18 hour bus ride down from Matamoros to Veracruz, Mexico on the chicken bus. OK it wasn’t a chicken bus and the seats were had about the same legroom as a first class in an airline but it was definitely a bumpy night. There doesn’t seem to be […]
Places…
The question of where is my hometown has always been a tough one to answer. I’ve lived in: Sacramento, CA Stockton, CA Anchorage, AK Hillsboro, OR Yamhill, OR Eugene, OR Brooklyn, NY Portland, OR Santa Monica, CA Redondo Beach, CA and now Palm Springs, CA My Parents weren’t in the military or fugitives from the […]
Welcome to fabulous Palm Springs!
Frank, Dino and the rest of the Rat Pack boys are no longer here but as promised in the Flintstone’s theme song come on out and you can have a “gay old time“. There’s actually some pretty good outdoors activities here that don’t involve a pool or spoiling a good walk with a little white ball invented […]
Recap
To catch up viewers… This is my wife and I. We are incredibly lucky or incredibly insane depending on who you talk with. We cashed out, left the rat race, quit our jobs, sold our crap – well… a good chunk anyways – and moved to a condo in Palm Springs so we could live […]