We are so happy we finally are casting off our lines. It’s a nervous moment when you leave port after such a long time. Did we think of everything? Will the boat work? Do we still know how to sail? The harbor master and his crew help us with the undocking maneuver and then skipper…
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A tough first week
Optimistic and maybe a little naive, we arrive assuming that just 2-3 days will be plenty of time to get ready for our trek up north. Boy are we wrong! We end up spending an entire week, sweating and cursing, working through an ever growing list of problems. The rational explanation is that sitting still…
Getting ready for another trip
That’s right. Another trip! Somehow, we are pulling it off, it seems. A turbulent year lies behind us. A year full of change and life’s challenges. It is all rather complicated and messy. Life. A process. With plenty of uncertainty and a meandering path whose destination we still don’t know. But here we are, on…
Close Call
Now this is really scary. It’s Sunday morning, June 30th, and I’m sitting in my apartment in Munich when I catch wind of a hurricane brewing near the southern Windward Islands. At first, it’s just background noise, but then I dig into the details—checking NOAA’s hurricane center, tracking the storm’s path—and that creeping feeling of…