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Rough Riding the Bluest Oceans
Our pilot boat chugged in at 7 am. Having engine problems and a dodgy outboard has some limitations when reversing out of a dock. Yes, Yoldia was small enough to take for a walk, but Read more…
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Oh Captain, My Captain
Every captain has a parrot, a wooden leg and an eye patch. Everyone knows that. I learned it when I was 4… But as I rocked up at my very first sailing boat (Fiddler) back Read more…
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New crew, new countries, and a shower
(Petite Piton, Saint Lucia) After putting it off for four or fourteen or maybe even a few more days than that; I’m proud to announce I’ve finally had a shower… I think the whole of Read more…
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Impossiblity is everything
The very best things I’ve ever done were all once labeled impossible. I’m a 29 year old barefooted gypsy, intrepidly traveling the world with a ginormous teddy and a cable-tied-together backpack; stopping regularly to gawk Read more…
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100 days of happiness
happiness ˈhapɪnɪs/ noun 1. the state of being happy. “she struggled to find happiness in her life” synonyms: contentment, pleasure, contentedness, satisfaction, cheerfulness,cheeriness, merriment, merriness, gaiety, joy, joyfulness, joyousness,joviality, jollity, jolliness, glee, blitheness, carefreeness, gladness,delight, good spirits, high spirits, light-heartedness, good cheer, well-being, enjoyment, felicity; exuberance, exhilaration, elation, ecstasy, delirium, jubilation, rapture,bliss, blissfulness, euphoria, beatitude, transports of delight; heaven,paradise, seventh heaven, cloud nine; humorousdelectation; rarejouissance “her Read more…
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If you have a Moment
Life takes you down some crazy paths… One moment you’re at work merrily swinging from the trees (or whatever it is you do) and then, in a spur of the moment decision, you’re merrily sailing Read more…
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The End of the Chapter
It’s amazing how life rolls on… One random Chapter after the next…. CHAPTER 1- Growing Up Back in 1984 1984 -1980somrtthing Also in the 80s CHAPTER 2 – Growing a brain This is not actually Read more…
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Life. (Because you’re not dead yet)
Once upon a new years eve… in a car bar… because you don’t actually have to go out to have fun… Bungee jumping, licking a president, reproducing, writing a novel, taxidermising a pet, starting an Read more…
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Out of the Abyss : Still a Blip in a Vortex of Blue
[continued from http://barefootedgypsy.blogspot.com/2012/11/into-abyss-but-blip-in-ocean.html] Week 3 and still we hadn’t caught up to the drowning sun. The heavens still had balls of fire to fling about. The ocean still held suicidal fish to die upon our Read more…
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Into the Abyss : But a Blip in the Ocean
“When I grow up, I wanna be a pirate.” – Former me, age 5ish… And I really did. I wanted to swing by ropes from boat to boat waving plastic swords (all swords are plastic Read more…