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Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
09/26/202505/04/2026 Lorraine Escher

Crossing the Panama Canal Doesn’t Just Move Your Boat from One Ocean to Another — It Moves You to a Completely Different World

Lorraine Escher on a flight to Kuala Lumpur for trigger release surgery
08/28/202504/10/2026 Lorraine Escher

Getting Fit After 50: The Remark That Changed My Routine

Fedex picking up our three boxes in our friend Carl's apartment in Miami.
08/27/202505/01/2026 Lorraine Escher

Delivering More Than Just Parcels: A FedEx Story on Today’s Silk Road

08/08/202410/08/2025 Lorraine Escher

Alfred Escher remembered

Margaret from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, sitting outdoors with Karen and a local village boy under a large tree
02/04/202401/30/2026 Lorraine Escher

What We Ate Sailing Through Micronesia and Melanesia: Markets, Farming, and Fishing

Shows weevil larvae in pasta
01/13/202405/25/2026 Lorraine Escher

Weeviling: managing weevils on a sailboat in Micronesia

Karen and Henry inspect the octopus
01/05/202401/29/2026 Lorraine Escher

Reef fish, octopus and sea cucumbers for the dinner plate (Chuuk, Micronesia)

01/02/202405/29/2026 Lorraine Escher

Diesel filling in Micronesia with video, and no police involvement

A photo of our kids running along the beach of Lake Superior with a banner of our tent and van with the text The Road Trip that Changed Everything, referring to the 60 day camping trip we took the summer before we bought our St. Francis 50 catamaran, SV Aphrodite.
01/01/202406/23/2026 Lorraine Escher

Why We Want to Sail

Glasses sit atop other World War II artifacts including a glass syringe.
09/18/202306/13/2026 Lorraine Escher

Visiting the Peter Joseph Museum in the Solomon Islands: A Backyard Full of World War II History

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