Ciao, We took an early morning train out of Paris to Venice. We were forced to travel 1st class because 2nd class was sold out. We decided to plan ahead a little and had actual train and hotel reservations. The ride was beautiful. We had 15min to change trains in Milan. This was concerning to me from the very beginning. Well our train was late by about 12minutes. We ran from track 1 to track 8 in the very big and busy Milan station and watched our train for Venice depart just as we reached it. So much for trying to [View Full Entry]

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We arrived in Paris early on the 21st. We had no reservations, wanting to be spontaneous. We got a tip from a gal on the plane for a nice, inexpensive hotel that still had rooms available and was close to the Arc de Triomphe. Great, we would head that way. Traveling just with backpacks we left the airport via train to the metro. We came out from underground into Paris!! We were exhausted and it was raining. Cold, wet and tired we navigated the streets of Paris quite poorly!! Lots of wrong turns. We eventually reached the hotel. No rooms. "No [View Full Entry]

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As many of you know we are back in Flagstaff. My mother underwent open heart surgery and we have been here recovering her. She is doing fantastic and we hope to fly to Europe on Oct 20th. We had an amazing 2 months in the SanJaun, Gulf and Vancouver Islands. We sailed, sometimes motored, to over 17 different locations. For the most part the weather was good and things went smoothly. Just an occasional "near miss" of a potential disaster. The trickiest, most stressful part for me is docking the boat. It maneuvers like a drunken pig, (and it wasn't my [View Full Entry]

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Here we are again, quite delinquent on any recent site additions. What can we say? We have been busy traveling on the 'Fahrt'. There has been some internet access issues but mostly our time has been taken up with sailing, running and hiking, eating ice cream, and watching seals, orcas, and lots of birds. Madison did manage to catch the only fish so far (it was ugly too). We left Anacortes on july 24th on the Seefahrt, this was our maiden voyage in winds 15-20 knots. The boat likes these wind speeds. We started off in the San Juan Islands, part [View Full Entry]

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We are here in Anacortes, Washington sitting in the "Seefahrt". The Seefahrt is our newly purchased Nor'Sea 27, a sailboat. We are not sure of the names origin and were originally going to change it but the name has really grown on us. We picked the boat up in Santa Cruz and hauled her up here to Anacortes. We stopped to see lots of friends and family along the way. When I first saw "The Fahrt" out of the water I thought, "There is NO WAY we are hauling that ourselves. NO WAY!!!" It seemed massive. Our F250 crew cab [View Full Entry]

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