On your own keel in New York!
Well, and then suddenly we're on our own keel in New York. What a fantastic experience!!! Before we left, this was always a big milestone, but still so far away. And now we're really here, with the...
hello everyone
Everything's fine here. We stayed in someone else's house for a week. We got some really nice stuff from the people at the house. Like harry potter lego. We also went to one of their kids' games...
A week in someone else's house
Hello, everyone. We spent a week in someone else's house. That was fun. They gave a lot. Like Harry Potter lego. They gave the office of Dumbledore lego. And we also went to a match...
Incorporated into American family life
For a week we sleep at Dan and Kathy's house and are cordially integrated in their family life. A real experience, also for Mom and Helen and the girls. The house is big enough so we all have a...
A few days in a big house!
Halo, everybody! How are you? We're in a big house now. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this house. We're staying here for a few days. Because this house belongs to a friend who...
In Annapolis
Grandma's here visiting. With her sister. I'm really enjoying myself here. Except for missing what I did with you guys. We're staying in a big house for a few days now. The first one...
Continue Chesapeake Bay by six.
The nice weather continues. A little less warm than last weekend, but still with a warm sun which makes it lovely to stay outside. We're all set, there are six of us on the boat, and...
Six of us through Chesapeake Bay...
The Chesapeake Bay is a very large bay on the east coast of America, with the city of Norfolk in the south and the cities of Washington DC and Baltimore in the north....
Along the east coast of America up to the beginning of Chesapeake Bay
Yesterday afternoon we arrived in Norfolk, a real "US-navy" town at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay ... a large bay with beautiful nature where we spend the next two weeks with Mira's mother and aunt Helen (sister of Mira's...
Florida ... large shopping malls and beautiful nature
Florida is a state of extremes in that respect. The whole of America is. There are huge shopping malls everywhere with mega-large parking lots and lots of shops, open on Sundays and sometimes even open 24 hours a day like...
Day of shopping!
Hello everyone. We are now in a hotel. Driving there took three hours. Before that we went into the shop after the other shop. Today I only ate 3 things: a small piece of French toast, 3 squid candies and a little...
Shuttle launch and amusement parks in Florida
Yes, we're in America!!! All on our own keel and we're proud of it. What a country! We've both been here before, so it's not unknown. But as part of this trip compared to...
Crossing to Florida.
It was 2 days sailing to Florida. The first day we caught a barracuda. (With a new hook because the other 2 were bitten off by a big fish.) The second day the sea was a bit wild. We...
The beautiful underwater world of the Bahamas
So, this is the story of our 2nd (and last) week in the Bahamas. Most Americans and Canadians we meet here spend months there, but most of them don't get any further than this. They find...
Bahamas ... a whole new world!
The nice thing about this sailing trip is that after a few hours of sailing (in this case 26 hours) you are suddenly in a whole other world again. We have left Cuba behind us and are surprised by the Bahamas. What...