Hbr

... 'steam cave. What a great morning. We pulled up the hook around noon, topped off the water tanks, and headed off to Montegue Hbr. Rachel was exhausted from the steam cave and went down below. I pulled out the head sail and had a lazy sail with the wind ...

... the marina office and pushed out around 12:30. We motored for a while and then had a really nice sail over to Bedwell Hbr. Bedwell Hbr is where we clear customs into Canada. We cleared no problem and then dropped the hook out in front of Poet's Cove ...

In the morning, Rachel went ashore for her run and I worked on the boat for a few hours. We pulled the anchor at about 11:30 and had a wonderful run wing-on-wing for several hours. We were doing about 5 kts on 10-13 kts of breeze. We hit Gabriola Pass ...

... and Southwest are just the best in every way. People should really read this article about the quality of US airlines. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/09/qantas_and_the_airline_quality.html Anyway, we slowly walked to the E terminal since Xue was not ...

... my book and chilling out but got totally engrossed in the conversations going on. And when they found out I'd seen the Friday Hbr parade, for a few short minutes, I was gossip central on Lopez!  There were fireworks at around 10pm but I'm not quite ...

... correct spelling of difficult (Mrs. D, Mrs. I, Mrs. FFI...) Helmet brain me thinks.  From Salt Spring I cycled to tiny Fulford Hbr. to catch the ferry to Sidney on Vancouver Island. While on board I put my bike up on blocks and peddled for the whole ...

The most interesting thing I enjoyed to do in Sydney it was the "doors off helicopter tour", the Sydney Aquarium, the Imax Theatre and photographing in the Blue Mountain. About the doors off helicopter tour, it really really was frightening! I was ...

"There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it." ~Charles Dudley Warner Arriving after a good rest on a 13 hour flight (flying from S America shaved a number of hours off the painfully long flight from the U.S.), I was ready ...