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Job Jar Boat Jobs For Kids with Karen dusting our Nav desk in the background on SV Aphrodite
June 12, 2026June 12, 2026Lorraine Escher

Job Jar: 15-Minute Boat Jobs for Kids

Betty after accepting her university offer in Canada.
April 22, 2026April 22, 2026Lorraine Escher

Betty’s University Decision

Our niece, Jorja, from Calgary in front of the Bridge of the Americas, Panama.
September 26, 2025September 26, 2025Lorraine Escher

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

August 8, 2024August 8, 2024Lorraine Escher

Alfred Escher remembered

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.
January 1, 2024January 1, 2024Lorraine Escher

Why We Want to Sail

October 26, 2023October 26, 2023Lorraine Escher

Betty, age 17, joins a medical mission in Papua New Guinea

August 23, 2023August 23, 2023Lorraine Escher

Mugged in Honiara: Travel Safety in the Solomon Islands

Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Eight Bathers painting.
June 20, 2023June 20, 2023Lorraine Escher

An Octave of Women: Shades of Contrast in Fiji

May 31, 2023May 31, 2023Lorraine Escher

Removing our rudders in the water, and towing another catamaran

Galapagos Long Reads with a Close-up of the Feet of a Blue-Footed booby bird
June 12, 2022June 12, 2022Lorraine Escher

Long Reads: Galapagos

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