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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

A photo of SV Aphrodite anchored in Langkawi, Malaysia
December 7, 2023December 7, 2023Lorraine Escher

About Our Boat

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

A picture of someone walking on a hike in Grenada during a Hash House Harriers run
December 11, 2021December 11, 2021Lorraine Escher

Long Reads Grenada

Why the Caribbean has no tides
February 21, 2019July 9, 2026Lorraine Escher

Why the Caribbean Has Virtually No Tides

Henry with a local Dominican boy outside Wendy's bar near Luperon harbour, Dominican Republic where we spent hurricane season with our catamaran and four kids
December 6, 2016December 6, 2016Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Boat Kids Go Local

Luperon Long Reads Building a Hurricane Moorring with input an design review by Bruce Van Sant
August 3, 2016August 3, 2016Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Designing and Building a Mooring for Our 50-foot Catamaran

An image of Henry and Paul driving our dinghy with SV Aphrodite in the background next to an image of the track of hurricane Matthew in 2016 when we stayed in Luperon for hurricane season.
June 6, 2016July 5, 2026Lorraine Escher

Luperón Long Reads — Waiting Out Hurricane Season

Long Reads: Exumas Stories. A picture of Betty and Paul on the beach at Shroud Cay.
May 24, 2016May 24, 2016Lorraine Escher

Bahamas Long Reads — Exumas Stories

A Nurse Shark that we seriously feared in the Jumentos, Ragged Islands and other islands south of George Town.
May 23, 2016May 23, 2016Lorraine Escher

Southern Bahamas Long Reads — Beyond the Exumas

Word of the Hour

Undoing The Bow Locker New word in …

Undoing The Bow Locker

On This Day

  • 10 years ago todayFrom the Vault: Cycling 1,000 miles Along the US Pacific Coast — with a Parrot
  • 10 years ago todayBeans! Beans! Beans! Abandoning Meat in the Dominican Republic
  • 11 years ago todayStress-free camping? Not here.

Worth Reading

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Checklist for the Big Move

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