Home. At least seven months and 10,000 miles of land and ocean stand between me and home. I’ve been thinking about that more and more this last week. God knows I’ve had the time to think about it. 4 hour-long night watches on a small yacht in a big ocean ensure […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Four weeks in the waiting, I am finally on my way. Through the wonderful assistance of John and Rich at The Moorings Yacht Brokerage in Road Town, Tortola, I have tracked down a captain taking a boat up north. Captain Debbie is her name, and she is a delivery captain […]
Day 487 – THE CARIBBEAN (BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS): A reluctant ...
If you come to the Virgin Islands, make a stop at Aragorn’s Studio. There you can see the famous Gli Gli Carib Canoe, and local artwork from the Caribbean. Trellis Bay is all rather photogenic…
Day 484 – THE CARIBBEAN (BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS): More of ...
Aragorn Dick-Read is an artist with close links to his heritage as a Tortolan. For most of his adult life he has been cultivating the West Indian heritage of the people that live in the Caribbean. Today I had the privelage of helping him transport an important part of that […]
Day 483 – THE CARIBBEAN (BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS): Mission: Accomplished
Time to get out of the British Virgin Islands. That’s not to say that I don’t like the place. What a great place this is. I have spent the last week staying in Trellis Bay on Beef Island, at the western most point of Tortola. I have slept in Aragorn’s […]