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
(2015 America’s Great Loop Memoir) After our foggy adventure from Carrabelle, Fla. to Tarpon Springs, we had a good night’s sleep then hauled up the anchor the next day and made the short trip to Clearwater where we looked forward to a few days of rest in a marina. Clearwater, Fla. is where in 1982 … Read more