Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

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The Dangling Goober

After floundering around in the Caribbean for a couple months, and continuing south to St. Vincent, Bequia, Tobago Cays, and Union Island, it’s time to move.
We’re finally free of Caribbean tourism.  We think about breaking up the passage to Panama with a stop, but the honeymoon memories Lorrie and I have of Aruba, [...]

We’re new to this life, and we share apprehension and even fear of the worlds we will come into contact with over the course of our voyage, much of it bred in our American perspective that the world is a scary place.

This becomes a recurring theme: places are special because of the people there. We’re meeting many people in different places, but are yet to find one of the places where they don’t value human life like we do.

Public space, dwindling as it is and socialist by definition is a true asset of America.

Many people around us hold keys to valuable insights, and the only path to those keys is to minimize my arrogance and hope they can overcome their fear of condescending.

//Please feel free to comment.  Today’s post is the  opening chapter to Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.  I plan on making the book available for purchase in time for Christmas, and need an idea of how many to order.  Please click here to express a nonbinding interest in ordering.

Dodging Doubts and Dodging [...]

//Having worked on a book about our experience during our circumnavigation, I wish to begin sharing that book here.  Please feel free to comment.  Today’s post is the  introduction to Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.  I plan on making the book available for purchase in time for Christmas, and wish to have an idea [...]

//In yesterday’s post, I said I am proud to be an American.  I did not say it in some sort of “rah, rah, we’re the greatest,” context, and I find that context to be somewhat distasteful.  The truth is that we’ve been given more than anyplace else I know of.  It is a birthright current [...]

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”