Nautical Term of the Day: ‘As the crow flies’
December 27, 2019, en route to the Amazon — My nautical term posts in the past have been very popular. I can’t promise I’ll come across...


Barbados: A Photographic Adventure
December 24, 2019, Bridgetown, Barbados — Located on a small island just 14 miles wide x 21 miles long, with a population of 287,000,...


San Juan, ‘a place that’s both of America and removed from it’*
December 21-22, 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Saturday was Embarkation Day. Two years ago, I had no idea what that entailed. Now I’m an...


Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah & Happy New Year !!
Okay, so I'm not in Venice, I'm in Barbados....... And even though I've used it before, this is still a great Christmas photo !! Happy...


Buenos dias, San Juan
December 20, 2019, San Juan, Puerto Rico — Uneventful trip from Boston yesterday. Though after a 3:40 a.m. alarm (four of them, to tell...


I give in...
December 6, 2019, West Newbury, MA — I said I wasn't going to write about packing but I’m up to my ears in options, and the bed is so...


‘Laziness Has Won’ — Seeing Double?
UPDATE: The URL appeared twice in the original post, so you can’t load it directly from the blurb. Chop it in half and it will work,...