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Bob & Janice Waller
Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added to our blog please subscribe. You will receive an e-mail message and a link to the blog when we have added new information. There is also a section of this blog which will enable you to send comments. Please take a moment and let us know what you think and what we could do to make this blog more interesting to you. I wish you all the very best and hope to see you as we travel. In the words of Mark Twain "nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people"s v Tsamaya
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Our First Weeek in Spain – Cangas on the Ria de Vigo
Published: May 14th 2013Europe » Spain » Galicia » Cangas de Morrazo
May 13th 2013
May 7 - May 14, 2013 We seem to have accomplished quite a bit in our first week in Spain. Unfortunately one of the things we have not done well is not transition to Spanish! We seem to say our greetings easily in Portuguese so we have to stop and think before speaking to be sure we change over to Spanish. Fortunately Cangas is located in Galicia, an autonomous community in Spain which historically also had its own language, Galician. It is a language closely related to Portuguese and had declined in use over the years. Since the re-establishment of democracy in Spain in 1983 there has been a re-surrence of its use with a generation that has attended Galician speaking schools. This has been good for us as people can understand the Portuguese we do ... read more
Our Final Days in the Algarve of Portugal April 26 - May 2, 2013
Published: May 10th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos
May 10th 2013
It is always hard to get the blog updated with what we have done just before leaving a port. As a result will go back in time to just before we left Lagos to fill in the gap. Lagos had a Festival of Discovery that was held between April 26th and May 5th. This is to mark the period during the 16th century when the royalty entered and elevated Lagos to a city as well as the departure of the Navy and the battle of Alcacer Quibir. We took advantage of being in Lagos at the time to see some of the festivities. The parade through town that we saw included the peasants, jesters, musicians, and upper-class as the King rode into town. The town square included lots of vendors that brought you back to the ... read more
Our Travels from Lagos, Portugal to Cangas, Spain May 3-May 7, 2013
Published: May 8th 2013Europe » Spain » Galicia » Vigo
May 8th 2013
Some of you that may have read our other blog, some of this will be a repeat, but we have tried to fill in some of the details for you about our trip thus far since leaving Lagos. As you may have figured from our previous entries we have been somewhat anxious to get moving again. We definitely enjoyed our stay in Lagos, Portugal but figured it was time to start moving north toward the Baltic. We decided to take advantage of a weather window that was to be 3-4 days long allowing us to start the move north. For those of you sailors that may be superstitious we want to reassure you that even though May 3rd was a Friday we really weren’t heading north yet – we were just moving to our staging point ... read more
May 2nd 2013
Well, as one of the cruisers on our dock so aptly put it, it is now time to cut the Velcro around the waterline on Tsamaya and head north to explore new places! Lagos has been known as the Velcro marina we understand why it has that reputation. We have thoroughly enjoyed our stay here taking advantage of the many benefits of the area. The marina has been a great place to meet cruisers from all over Europe and pick up fabulous tips of places to go. The area has been complete with ease of access to public transportation, a nice variety of restaurants, great places to walk to see the magnificent coastline and the bonus of being near our friends, Sandra and John. With a good size marina some of the added benefits are book ... read more
April 28th 2013
Just realized after posting our last blog that it is not good to write captions after midnight as the brain is not fully in gear. The 65' Oyster sailboat is a full 25 feet, not 15 feet longer than our 40' Caliber. One other positive of a 40' boat was clearly pointed out by our friend, Dave - we definitely are happy that we do not have 25 more feet of bottom to sand or paint! It was great having a chance to be out on the water and to experience what it was like to be on a 65', but we now know that we will take a 65' sailboat off our list of boats we might be interested in!!! For others of you just wanted to be sure to pass on another sunset photo ... read more
March - Where Did It Go? and April - Our Annual Exercise Program
Published: April 23rd 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos
April 23rd 2013
The last blog showed a few of the activities we did for enjoyment during the last 2 weeks of March since returning from the US. We filled the rest of the time with book exchanges, computer group get togethers where we shared ideas, caught up with friends, Sandra and John as well as numerous cruising friends and treating ourselves to eating out a few times at local restaurants. Between rainstorms we also managed to do the usual household errands such as going to the grocery store and doing laundry. On the morning of April 2nd everything changed; we had a beautiful sunny day with no wind – a perfect time to pull the boat. This was the first time we moved the boat since arriving in our slip on October 3rd. We were scheduled to be ... read more
Our Stay in the US (Dec 14, 2012-March 14, 2013) and Return to Portugal
Published: March 24th 2013Europe » Portugal » Algarve » Lagos
March 24th 2013
Well, we are now back in Lagos, Portugal after a much longer than planned trip from the US. Our travels started on Thursday, March 14thwith a road trip to JFK to return the rental car and catch an American Airlines flight that evening to London. The original plan was to have one hour in Heathrow Airport and catch a flight to Lisbon which would get us there about 10:30AM, transfer to the bus station and be back at the boat at 4:30PM at the latest. Instead, when we got to London we were greeted by an American Airline representative that stated that they had already transferred us to a later British Airways flight as the original connection was too tight due to leaving JFK late. No problem we said and set off to terminal 1 where ... read more
February Road Trip - Family, Friends, and Fun (February 1 - February 23, 2013)
Published: March 24th 2013North America » United States » New York » Clifton Park
March 24th 2013
Most of February was taken up with a 3 week road trip from upstate NY to Florida stopping to see friends and family and giving Bob a much needed boat show fix in Miami. As a result of taking photos for the blog we have started to look at things differently. Our long absences from the United States give us an opportunity to see it much the way we do when visiting new countries. Things that we have passed a 1,000 times and barely noticed now amaze us with their beauty. The Adirondack Mountains, Blue Ridge and those incredible sunrises and sunsets make us think of places we have visited in the Caribbean and in Europe. We first started out by heading west to Syracuse to meet with our financial planner to be sure we are ... read more
January 2013 - Having a Great Time Even with the Cold!
Published: January 29th 2013North America » United States » New York » Clifton Park
January 28th 2013
We are enjoying our time in the US with family. We are getting settled into somewhat of a routine but find that we still have not gotten used to the bundling up, allowing more time to uncover the car from the snowfall the night before or scraping off the ice on the windshield. We have had some time with some members of both Bob and Janice’s family since being back. We both have been spending time with the physical therapist office. Bob finished up on a Wednesday last week and Janice started the next day! We both had started to do some exercises at a local gym and Janice decided to inflict some injury to her left shoulder so PT was the answer. Fortunately with only a couple of treatments she is feeling an improvement. Luckily ... read more
January 6th 2013
Sorry we have been so negligent in getting any updates on the blog, but we thought we would have more free time since getting back to the US, needless to say that has not been the case. Our trip back to the US actually started with a couple of days in Lisbon. We wanted to meet up with our friend, Vanessa and as she was returning to Terceira in the Azores for her University break we took the bus up to Lisbon a couple of days before our flight to the US. We had a wonderful time, she showed us around a section we hadn’t seen before (where the World Expo had been held in 1998) and we were able to introduce her to Indian cuisine, she was game for a new experience. It is people ... read more
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