Category: Travel

  • A weekend trip

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    Last weekend I took a trip with some other gringos from San Andrés. We rented a minibus for the weekend and drove south to Semuc Champey. It is an area with lots of limestone and lots of water. Predictably, there are caves there, and other interesting things to see. We caught the bus at 5…

  • Life in San Andrés

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    I have more time to write today, so here is a better description of my new life for the next few weeks. First, a look at how my day goes. At 5 am or so, the roosters start making noise, which in turn wakes up the pigs who make snuffling noises in the street. In…

  • I made it!

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    Those of you who have been wondering, I made it to little San Andrés, Guatemala and am settled in with my family. I do not have time for a full update today, but I am doing fine and am really happy with my choice of programs. Already I have had 5 hours of instruction and…

  • Where’s Jeff Been?

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    I’ve been having some more sedate adventures during the last couple months, so I’ve been remiss in telling y’all what I’ve been up to. Well, now I’m about to start some new stuff, I figured I better flush out the queue! My last update was from New Years. I spent January in Arnold. I occupied…

  • A New Year’s update

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    Hello, all my travel-watchers! Hope you all had a good holiday season. Thanks to those of you who put me up, and those others who asked, “Where are you?” Since I last sent out an update, I’ve returned to the US from Dakar, Senegal. I made my way home by a sequence of trips that,…

  • Senegal Observations

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    Some random observations about Senegal: You must bargain over virtually every purchase. I would have thought that would drive me crazy, but you get used to it. And the Senegalese sense of humor makes it fun, since a huge part of the bargaining process is making the other guy laugh. If you are at a…

  • Made it to Senegal

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    Hi everyone! We made it to Senegal! This passage was much easier than the last one. It was over 850 miles, so we were prepared for it to take over a week to get here. That’s a long time on a little boat! The weather was pretty much in our favor all the time. That…

  • Crepes

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    It was my night to cook dinner tonight. I’d been looking at the crepe page in the Moosewood cookbook for ideas for dinner crepes ever since I made them for breakfast a few days ago. They were a hit for breakfast, so I figured dinner was the logical next step! Moosewood suggested a spinach and…

  • Autopilots

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    I said before that on watch we only need to check for traffic and other changing conditions. If that’s all we have to do, then who’s steering? The answer is the autopilot! Wonderland has two autopilots on board. The first one is an electronic one. The other one is analog and operates off of the…

  • Passagemaking

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    You may have noticed I’m not sending out many updates. Plenty is going on, it’s just hard to squeze in time to go write an update at an internet cafe. So I’m trying a new system where I write updates offline when I get a chance, then upload them when I am online. My last…