1964 was the year I graduated from Taft High School in Woodland Hills, CA. An unofficial class ballot indicated I was least likely to succeed. I played football and tennis, surfed, and goofed off.
Read More The Great Alaskan Pajama PartyVal and I have always thought that it was better to build memories rather than just acquire stuff. When we started cruising in 2006, we realized that the boat was a great tool that allowed us to get to remote places, and with friends and family, to experience things together that would be exciting and […]
Read More Making MemoriesLast season we didn’t have time to entertain guests. But we’re making up for that this year! Our friends Tamara and Johnny from Seattle came to spend a week with us exploring Prince William Sound.
Read More Prince william sound with tamara and johnnyOn April 20, we and our two cats flew from Bellingham WA to Homer AK. Three flights + two cats = long day!
Read More Homer to valdez 2023We spent the last few weeks of our short season doing a big fly-by loop from Homer, along the Kenai Peninsula on the coast of the Gulf of Alaska, into and around Prince William Sound, and then back to Homer.
Read More Kenai Peninsula and Prince William SoundI reunited with Stan aboard Buffalo Nickel in Kodiak, Alaska. And so did our two cats! At two years of age, this was their first plane trip. Three flights and all day… they did not love it, but did amazingly well.
Read More Alaska: Kodiak to HomerIn our last blog post, I mentioned the several-day passage Stan and Steve made up the Sea of Japan, from Fukuoka on Kyushu, to Hakodate, on Hokkaido. I think I called that passage a nightmare, due to the poorly predicted weather conditions they had to grapple with.
Read More through the aleutians july 2022So it’s been a while. QUITE a while, in fact. I might have made a blog post last spring, all about how we were getting ready to get the Buffalo out of Japan, finally, and on to Alaska for the summer cruising season. You might have noticed that this did not happen.
Read More Japan to alaskaOur last post was January 2020. We all know what happened next! But finally, over a year later, we have some new cruising plans to report.
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