We've had a lot of guests and it's been great to have touches from home. Julia joined us in Palm Beach. We walked across a bridge over...

Throughout the preparations and travels making up our great loop so far, one creature stands ut: the pelican. As we prepared for the loop...

Our loop is slowing down. Part of it is the weather. Indeed, we experienced gale force winds in both Miami and Hillsboro. Both times, we...

Sitting on the bow I was alone with my thoughts, the warm summer breeze was wafting through my hair with the salty fresh air mingling...

Chroniclers of adventures navigate a tension. People want to reads about exciting or pleasant events, and I'll lean toward that...

Getting tied up to a fixed dock in Florida can be a real challenge. We should have done some lasso practice when Julia had her steer. If...

When I was a freshman in college I went home from Austin to Midland, Texas, every six weeks. The dorm was fine, my roommate was great but...

Most of the boats in our class cary a device called a chart plotter, the marine version of the mapping apps many of us have on our mobile...

When we left Chattanooga on January 15th, we knew we were behind. All of the looper "bibles" we read including Super Loopers, The...

Tourist beach towns all through the South have their own personality, but also usually have common themes. Most cater to two major...

From the time we decided to do the great loop, we watched the trepidatious Gulf of Mexico crossing from Carrabelle to Tarpon Springs. As...

Childhood memories are funny things. Some are patchy or fading, like the time my father woke me right around the time a tornado passed...

Today, we were on the boat in a storm, and it didn't even wake us up. We were in a marina. The boat rocked gently, and the gravelly...

In one week we've seen incredible variety that makes up Florida's Southwest coast. It's been beautiful. We left 3 days at anchor at...

We spent our third night on the hook, or at anchor. We were tied up in deep waters with only tiny ripples on the surface, but the current...

Time flies - fun or not! I've used 1-ply toilet paper for 6 weeks and I automatically now put it in the bucket behind the commode. A $200...

In the blockbuster movie and cult classic Ground Hog Day, Bill Murray relives the same day over and over. It's hard to complain about...

I rose to look in the mirror to see my haggard face. Tne events of the day before and the 6 foot waves had rattled me. We pride ourselves...

After a couple of days of starting our Loop, we locked through the Guntersville lock into Lake Wheeler. Our weather reports told us to...

When Bruce and I were newly married we went kayaking on the Guadalupe River with our friend Mike. Not at all adventurous, this was me as...