Hello darkness my old friend When we arrived at Gatun Lake after transiting the first set of locks we attached to the mooring ball and the advisor was taken off our boat. The crew felt great and dinner and drinks … Continued
28 Days For 20 months we have been doing this commuter cruiser thing. It works. I know it seems like a lot of travel and it is but you are going to your boat and that is never a hardship. … Continued
Goodbye Cartagena If you do the part time cruising thing like we do you sometimes enter and leave a country 2 or 3 times by plane and get pretty familiar with the place. Cartagena was like that. We ended up … Continued
We were ready to head to the staging area for the transit today and received a call from our Agent around noon to let us know that we were being bumped from the transit schedule. We happen to be here … Continued
Well actually tomorrow March 14th but we wanted you to open the post. We are scheduled to begin the transit tomorrow beginning at 3:45 p.m. We will enter the Gatun locks around 5:00 p.m then will anchor in Gatun Lake … Continued
Rush 2112 Okay I have been planning this for years. Not the trip to Bogotá mind you but the use of the song “Train to Bangkok” where it starts with the verse “we just touched down in Bogotá “ yes … Continued
The Spanish Lake For 200 years the Spanish ruled the seas. South America was theirs. The trade routes, islands, minerals and resources. The Caribbean Sea was known as Spain’s lake. The epicenter of the western hemisphere was the city of … Continued
This ain’t no island… When we pulled up to Colombia I expected what I had been getting. Beaches, bars and palm trees. This was different, a continent? Who pulls up to one of those? Not most people. Cruisers go for … Continued
Fear mongering So for 18 months since we left Florida I knew that we would end up heading west from the Caribbean and that meant the dreaded passage between Aruba and Colombia. It has been legendary just how rough this … Continued
Go west young man So the kids left us in Curacao and Thanksgiving was over. Our trip wasn’t! We had to haul the boat to fix a problem with the saildrive and then make it to Aruba for a day … Continued