When we reached Charleston, South Carolina, we breathed a sigh of relief. We could stock up on groceries, eat in good restaurants, and do laundry. Certain rituals seem to be ageless. One is the gathering of women to beat dirty clothes against rocks, to share a little gossip, and to generally pass the time. This … Read more

Brunswick, Georgia, in April of 2015 was buggy, which is why the marina we stayed in  handed out flyswatters to visiting boaters. The marina also had free laundry, great showers, and  was next to a farmer’s market. But this wasn’t a sight-seeing trip, it was a grand adventure so after three days’ rest we headed … Read more

If you read this before, it was inadvertently  attached to last week’s blog. If not, here it is for you again! I came up with the “Confessions” title in 2007 while crossing St. Andrew Sound in a small craft advisory. The sound is shallow, way out to the mouth of the Atlantic. While you can … Read more

As most of you have figured out by now, this isn’t a travelogue. It’s a personal journey, a peak into the psyche of a scared spouse who “wasn’t sure she wanted to go, but set aside her fears and went anyway.”  So you won’t hear about all the places we visited on our way up … Read more

This is not about Ernest Hemingway, although he lived in Florida and would understand why this phrase applies to this post. We left Fort Myers and headed for the Okeechobee Waterway, a 135-mile trip across the center of Florida, using rivers, a lake, and canals. We made it through five locks and turned northward in … Read more