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Getting Ready to Sail Away

April 14, 2026

Seven weeks have flown by since we visited Jacqui and Phil at their bach, and I’m wondering: where…

The Ladies

February 20, 2026

My mother-in-law, Elaine, and my Aunt Rita—a.k.a. “the ladies”—arrived from the States in tip-top shape, albeit minus one…

Trampers?

February 3, 2026

Tramper noun 1. a person who tramps 2. New Zealand, a person who walks long distances, often over…

The Stories are Waiting for Us

January 20, 2026

Biblical. That’s the best word to describe living on a boat in this kind of weather. It’s been…

North to Cavalli Islands and Whangaroa Bay

January 8, 2026

When your Kiwi friends tell you not to miss the Cavalli Islands and Whangaroa Bay, you listen. So…

It’s Good

December 28, 2025

It’s official—our TikTok channel, if we ever had one (which we won’t), would be called Ice Cream Around…

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”

- Hunter S. Thompson -

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.

- Paulo Coelho -

Everything will be alright in the end … If it’s not alright, then it’s not yet the end.

- Sonny Kapoor -

A ship is always safe at the shore – but that is NOT what it is built for.

- Albert Einstein -

Life’s like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

- Jim Henson -

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

- Mark Twain -

I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -