We were fortunate to be able to visit Cambodia over our winter break from school. Lisa flew back to the states to see her family and support her dad during his open heart surgery. (Everything went well with that.) I spent 8 years teaching in Long Beach, California at a Khmer bilingual school so hearing the people speak, seeing the printed language, and being surrounded by the lovely, smiling faces was a trip down memory lane. Cambodia is a wonderful…
Random photos from my camera.…
The Sail 2 Indonesia and World ARC Rallies both made a stop at Medana Bay Marina where we keep our sailboat. Over 50+ boats arrived for the weeklong festivities. The ARC boats arrived from…
After renting a van for the day with our good friends from SV Me Too, we circumnavigated the island of Efate in Vanuatu. Near the north of the island was a former World War…
On the island of Tanna in Vanuatu we caught a break in the rain and traveled up to peek into a volcano. The pictures don’t do it justice. It was an amazing feeling to…
As we arrived in Port Resolution on the isle of Tanna, Vanuatu, the village was preparing for a major multi-village event celebrating a young person becoming a man in the eyes of the village…
We’ve spent the past month in the Vava’u group of islands in the Kingdom of Tonga. This is a cruisers’ paradise. Unfortunately 17 of those days were spent in the boatyard. The boatyard was…
Each year the King of Tonga visits the island groups during their agriculture festival. The locals are recognized for their crops, livestock, art, and handicrafts. Each of the category winners get called up to…
We watch weather everyday, in fact, several times a day if we are trying to make a passage between islands. A small weather window opened up for our south bound journey from Samoa to…
Luke and I went for a drive and stopped at a beachside shack, teetering on the side of a cliff. We walked into an international tattoo festival with many people getting inked from artists…