All Entries Tagged With: "travel and places"
The bent scoop
Not every day on the beach is a great day. Beach days are always better than office days. Heck, the dentist chair is better than an office day if I recall correctly. At least in the dentist chair there was Nitrous Oxide to take the pain away… The surf God is presently angry on the [...]
Two Years Before the Mast – The List
I told you not to read this, that it would be boring! What are you doing here? Just a few points of interest. Note the 3 pairs of underwear. Ellen embroidered them as “January, February, March” so that I would have a system. In light of that, we pause for a commercial break. For all [...]
From Skipper to Gilligan, the adventure begins.
Editors note: The tall tale your about to hear is generated from the salt encrusted sea sprayed deranged mind of one sailing gent known as Nat Manning. He will be setting off on a sailing adventure to the Bahamas this week, and sending me regular updates. I’ll post them here so you can go on [...]
Gulfport walk-about / Peg’s Cantina
Part two of the walk-about finds the mule… sorry, I mean Nat, toting a varied assortment of new purchases to the next rest area. My personal requirements are, a nice seat outside and a good cup of coffee. I enjoy watching folks scurrying about. Nat’s requirement… time for an orange juice and a beer. I [...]
Desoto Point visited
Greetings from Venice. Well, the weather finally calmed down up in the Manatee River. The winds settled a bit so we hoped into the dink, collected our friends and headed for Desoto Point. Well, about 1am we heard a very loud crash up on deck over our heads. Startled awake and jumping onto the deck [...]
Manatee River anchorage
Hello from the great waters of the Manatee River. We arrived Monday afternoon after a nice ride across the Tampa Bay channel and headed south into the Manatee River. We have not been here before so it’s a new place for us. I got to use the new chart plotter to try and keep us [...]
