Category Archives: Bahamas

AKA The Day American Airlines Couldn’t Recover Sunday, March 24, 2024 We had arranged with Rich, the silver Tesla driver to pick us up at 9:30 am to take us back to the airport, but by 8:30 am, Dave and Joan had been in line at the airport for hours and were warning everyone toContinue reading “No Trip Is Complete Without a Sprint To The Gate!”

AKA The Day American Airlines Crapped The Bed Saturday, March 23, 2024 We woke up this morning to huge thunderstorms.  Lots of rain, thunder and lightning.  Super loud thunder! Yesterday, I had arranged for Rufus the cabbie to drive Todd to the airport at 8 am and to take us at 11:30, and he showedContinue reading “Yes, It’s Ridiculous”

Friday, March 22, 2024 Yesterday at Allens Cay, a man in a dinghy motored over to Vildiur while we were trying to anchor to warn us about an incoming storm, so we knew today we were going to be thankful to be in the marina and tied up to the dock.  And at the fuelContinue reading “Rolling like Sausage Links”

Thursday, March 21, 2024 This morning we all set an alarm for 6 am.  The plan was to eat a quick, light breakfast before hopping in the dinghy and motoring over to one of the snorkel spots I discovered yesterday. So, when the sun came up, we grabbed our gear and set off. As weContinue reading “Out of Rum, Out of Beer!”

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Today is the big day.  At least in my mind.  Todd was willing to skip this day, but I think he came to appreciate us pressing on yesterday after the fun sailing in the afternoon.  If we had voted to skip the pigs and end early yesterday, we would have missedContinue reading “No One Has Ever Seen Dave Harrold Wake Up So Quickly!”

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 We all slept like babies.  It was awesome.  The air conditioning did a great job and the Norman Cay Marina was super still and quiet once the party boat went to bed.   Nathan, Dave and I got up roughly at 7.  We went out to the cockpit and opened up theContinue reading “Rode Hard and Put Away Wet”

Monday, March 18, 2024 After the excitement of the first night on the boat, we were all looking forward to a calmer day today.  The second half of the night was quite rolly, and no one got a good night sleep.   Nathan joined Grant in the cockpit at 6:45 and Dave, Todd and I joinedContinue reading “Yet Another Crisis Averted!”

Sunday, March 17, 2024 Well, that was an adventure. We started the day off Sunday quite slowly.  I was the first one up at 6 am, so I made coffee and sat in the living room of our place.  Nathan was the second one up, and one by one, everyone woke up and collected inContinue reading “Captain, You’re Going the Wrong Way!”

I’m not so sure about that, at least not yet, but its as good a start to this adventure as we have for five, supremely sleep deprived individuals. Let me take a step back. Last August, on a random Tuesday, I woke up to find the following text message: “Hey Nathan and Anika, I’m planningContinue reading “As the Wind Blows, So Does Our Mind!”