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Tag: Traveling with food allergies

Margaret from Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, sitting outdoors with Karen and a local village boy under a large tree
February 4, 2024February 4, 2024Lorraine Escher

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

Shows weevil larvae in pasta
January 13, 2024January 13, 2024Lorraine Escher

Weeviling: managing weevils on a sailboat in Micronesia

Julia from SV Tribalance inspects her soup as it cooks
May 28, 2023May 28, 2023Lorraine Escher

Fiji: making stew using a hot spring

May 22, 2023July 6, 2026Lorraine Escher

Team carrot: creatively eating contraband on the way to Fiji

December 18, 2017July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

We are still living on the hard in Trinidad. It’s not all Christmas and poinsettias.

Paul in Power Boat Boatyard, Chaguaramas, Trinidad with our Mantus Anchor 2017 below SV Aphrodite, our St Francis 50 catamaran.
November 5, 2017July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Living with Four Kids in a Boatyard in Trinidad — Turns Out, It Isn’t So Hard to Stay ‘On The Hard’

December 8, 2016July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Recipe: No dairy mint chocolate chunk ice cream without an ice cream maker

October 4, 2016July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Canadian Boat Kids Go to School in Luperón

Ingredients for homemade icecream for a boy who lives on a sailboat with food allergies.
October 14, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

DIY Ice Cream: Living Off-Grid but Not Exactly Roughing It

August 2, 2015July 3, 2026Lorraine Escher

Medications for a year and beyond

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This Week in Years Past

  • 10 years ago this weekFrom the Vault: Cycling 1,000 miles Along the US Pacific Coast — with a Parrot
  • 10 years ago this weekBeans! Beans! Beans! Abandoning Meat in the Dominican Republic
  • 11 years ago this weekStress-free camping? Not here.
  • 11 years ago this weekA visit from CBC Radio’s Stu Mills

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