Category: Caribbean

Le Joie de Vivre, New Years Resolutions, Rainbows & Beyond!

Recently, my seemingly fruitless pursuit to learn how to speak French, my struggling inner-student who wants to learn and remember history, and my desire to have a mariner’s geographical photographic memory, feel mildly quelled and a bit inspired by a small purchase. We’re back in the Caribbean and on a French-speaking Island as I write, where I bought a bilingual… Read more →

Parlez-vous français?

DO I SPEAK FRENCH, you ask? Oui, un petit, petit (petit) peu!  We’ve returned to the Eastern Caribbean after 4 hurricane seasons in the Northeast and 1 in Georgia. Until we landed in the Spanish Virgins, we hadn’t realized how much we’d missed the weather, good vibes, great sailing, laid back lifestyle, swimming off the boat, fresh tropical fruit and… Read more →

Islas de los Encantos

The Spanish Virgins, true to Puerto Rico’s nickname, are definitely enchanting. We had an intense 6.5 days of sailing straight down from the Abacos. We saw a weather window and jumped on it. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to experience the Bahamas as much as we would have liked this time around, but we move with the seasons and if we… Read more →