“How many times have we flown to the Mediterranean to SailingActs?” Janet and I pondered somewhere over the Atlantic in the wee hours of May 8. At least 50 times, we thought, maybe a little smugly. The smugness of experience dissipated in Athens, where we needed to stay overnight in order to catch the flight …
April 11 – Flying with a Whisker Pole April 18 – Alien, trying to be Resident April 24 – The Big Ramadan Bang May 1 – Privilege and Pouting May 8 – Marina Lockdown – The Five People You Meet in “Heaven” May 22 – Blue Creation
What an intense week this has been! I will mention two reasons why. 1 – The US presidential elections It was pitch dark at 5:30 on Wednesday morning as I scrambled out of my bunk and logged on to CNN (Turkey is 7 hours ahead of EST). For the next three hours I followed, in …
Last week Janet and I celebrated our 40th. Like almost all of the 39 previous celebrations, we celebrated far from the place we were married. The journey away from Oregon and our closest friends/family began on our honeymoon and has never really stopped. Every year since we’ve been married we have celebrated our anniversary in …
This blog is different. For the past several days we’ve been back on SailingActs here in Finike, Turkey. That’s right, Janet flew back with me from my quick working visit to Virginia just last weekend for a bit of R and R following a flurry of activities at EMU over homecoming. In that time we …