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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…

I’ve Missed You

December 18, 2025

Hi, it’s me. Sorry I haven’t called. It’s so unlike us not to talk at least five times…

E aroha ana ahau ki a koe

November 27, 2025

Week 1 We were full of energy and happy to be back. Gerty was not even a little…

Pétanque Boules

October 26, 2025

If I were Queen of France for a day, I would toss aside my cumbersome gown in Paris,…

The Luxury of Time

October 10, 2025

Gerty is resting in the Raiatea boatyard, waiting patiently for her captains to return.“Soon,” I whispered this morning…

A Break for a Change from a Change

July 8, 2025

We put Gerty to bed at the end of April. We undressed her, sail by sail. We bathed…

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

- Sonny Kapoor -

I intend to live forever, or die trying.

- Groucho Marx -

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 -

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 -

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 -

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

- Paulo Coelho -