Fall                                      Moon of Thanksgiving Reentry.  Business meeting this am.  Funds look good.  Calendar less crowded for the next couple of months, though there is that Denver trip in January.  Another Stock show with the grandkids.  Groceries in a bit. Here are the Rio entries: Spring           Moon of the Southern Cross Rio port We were supposed […]

Fall                          Moon of Thanksgiving Quick note to say we’re back in town.  Have posts from Rio that I was unable to add due to internet kerfuffles both days we were there. We’ve picked up the dogs, listened to our messages and will do some more re-entry stuff tomorrow.  I’ll have the Rio posts by then, […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross 25 degrees 38 minutes S 45 degrees 6 minutes W course 038 NNE The winds continue to howl out of the northeast, 47 mph now and 9 on the Beaufort Scale. White caps and spindrift. The Veendam shakes in the wind and shudders when it hits a trough. The […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross South of Sao Paulo 26 degrees 29 minutes S 45 degrees 47 minutes W Course 038 nne Since we left the Rio de la Plata estuary after Montevideo, the seas have been high with winds ranging from 51 mph to 39 mph, Beaufort 11 to Beaufort 8. My episode […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross South of Rio, North of Montevideo rough seas Wrote the above yesterday looking out the lanai windows. Watching the deck go up and down. Big mistake. So, I spent yesterday in bed recovering from an indelicate moment of sightseeing. Last night we had winds that I observed at 51 […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross Montevideo, Uruguay On the banks of the Rio de la Plata, overlooking the Atlantic to the East Travel brings the unexpected. A primary purpose, of course, but after tours with guides, I had become a bit dulled to the canned formula of the best this and the most that […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross Montevideo, Uruguay 141 nautical miles east of Buenos Aires Due to high winds the Captain hired a second tug and has pushed us into the dock sideways. Standing on deck as the ship moved straight in tbe direction I faced from my spot midway on the starboard side disoriented […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross Buenos Aires, second night We were up and out early today, headed for the famed Argentine pampas and watching gauchos gaucho. Boy, what a let down. Turns out the pampas looks just like rural Minnesota, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and so on. By just like I mean they grow beans […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross Outside our room and down at the deck just above the waterlines, refueling is again underway. The promenade deck in front of our room and for about a hundred feet toward the stern of the ship has red cloth barriers over it, preventing other passengers from getting close to […]

Spring Moon of the Southern Cross 34 degrees 43 minutes S 57 degrees 48 minutes W course 300 WNW Rio de Plata estuary Threw out my back this morning. Gonna curb sightseeing here. Damn. Our journey up the Rio de Plata to Buenos Aires moves forward at 12 knots, a stately pace, occasioned in part […]