I received an expected notification from Google Fi, our cell phone service. They’ve decided to enforce their international policy for subscribers who travel extensively abroad. No United States? Then no Internet for you! Put a fork in my email; I’m done. Now what? Yeah, we had a few options to consider. Fortunately, in part to …
Month: April 2023
Furler Anxiety
Preface: Fayaway is presently at anchor near Thunderball in the archipelago of Exumas, Bahamas, attending a cruisers’ rally. More about that later. If you continue reading below, you will backtrack with us to almost two years prior, as we were deep into the refurbishment of our “new” Fayaway in the Spring of 2021. Enjoy! Fayaway’s …
Taste of Ragged Beauty
Fayaway’s course from Puerto Rico to The Ragged Islands. We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. Henry David Thoreau We “cleared out” of Puerto Real on a Wednesday …
Surrealism in SVI’s
Aahhh, the Spanish Virgins. Culebrita, aka Little Snake (Spanish), more an islet of Culebra, is a pleasant uninhabited outpost with beautiful beaches we last visited in early 2020. Swarming with little hermit crabs (where do they get their shells?) and literally capped off with an historic (1880’s) lighthouse relic, Culebrita is a can’t miss first-stop …
Whisker Pole Saga (Resurrection)
I’ve been pondering witty titles for this post, all on the subject of repairing a chafed pole. But decided on just settling for a basic matter-fact, not-too-cheeky version, not adding to the epidemic clickbait we all see now. “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.” G.K. …
SV Fayaway 