Just as my mother shared things she learned while being aboard last week, I learned a few things while having my parents visit. Be careful of how much you make…
Unlike other times in life, when one of my charters goes to the Dogs it is a wonderful thing! The Dogs are a group of small uninhabited islands between Virgin…
Cruz Bay is the western bay and town on St John. It is important because it is the easiest place to check into the US. When you are entering…
Every 28 days an event happens around the world that is celebrated in two different locations and styles in the British Virgin Islands. The event is the completion of a…
For the 18 years I lived in Colorado there is one Texas delicacy that was not available (just my luck they started shipping it since I left)! Even though Colorado…
After spending the day exploring the wonderful little town of Christiansted it was time to see the rest of St Croix, which is larger than St Thomas, St John, Tortola,…
As a charter boat captain in the Virgin Islands I am often asked which is my favorite island. As of this week I think I have a new answer…St Croix!…
Every now and then everyone falls into a funk, including me. I try to have a positive “go with the flow” attitude, but once in a while I fall into…
Last Sunday afternoon my friend Chase stopped by to see if I wanted to hit the beach with him before he shipped out. So I jumped on his boat and…
I have done several festivals in the last four years of travel, but Carnival on St Thomas was the first to let me down. It last for about a week…
It’s our last day of our charter, made up of half Americans and half New Zealanders, and it’s time to sum up a few life lessons. First of all, grabbing…
Sometimes in life we participate in an activity that is just asking to be a metaphor for life itself. This week I partook of one such metaphor when I went…
On a boat it becomes your identity! As cruisers we rarely know each other’s last names, only our boat’s name. Some examples are “aren’t you Shane on Guiding Light”, “Ahoy…
I know this is out of the normal for me to post twice in one week, but I wanted to make a trail map of Hassel Island, which I wrote,…
Sometimes it is the littlest things that get us thinking about how much we enjoy something. For me it is living on a boat. Even with the endless list of…
During the end of the hurricane season I had my old cloth bimini replaced with a fiberglass hardtop as I wrote about at the beginning of November. I love the…
As promised last week let’s talk about the Willy T, your best chance for debauchery in the BVI. The original concept for this joint started in 1989 when an old…
People often ask me what my favorite islands are and I tell them St John is by far my favorite, and I have written about different sites around that island…
Even though I have the same boat and I am the same person cruising and chartering are completely different approaches to boating. When I am cruising the pace is very…
My New Year Eve’s have never been that great. Starting when I was a kid I would spend most of them in Missouri watching over my younger cousins while the…
Twas the month before Christmas, when all thro’ the boat Not a creature was stirring, cause we have no goat; The stockings were hung on a palm tree with care,…
If you haven’t been to the islands before like me (although my husband has been several times) you have visions of paradise. And yes indeed, the Virgin Islands (US and…
This week I got a call from Jeff about a last minute 2 day charter. He said his dream was to spend his 50th birthday on the Willy T. After…
Thanksgiving in the islands is a wonderful thing. The weather is warm, the water is blue, and the palm trees cast a cooling shadow. I was lucky enough to be…
This week I participated in the USVI boat show, where I had the opportunity to talk to 30 or so different charter brokers. Each one stayed aboard for 20-30 minutes…
My brother and I just pulled into Cruz Bay on St John after an overnight motor sail from St Maarten. I finally left the shipyard even though they had not…
Well here I sit in a St Maarten shipyard with my boat still on hard ground. I left the boat here for over a month and a half with the…
I have to admit I have struggled with the topic of this week’s blog. Since it was my last full week in Dallas, not much has been happening except hanging…
The other day my friend Eric drove over to Kansas City so we could go rock climbing. He works as a firefighter/paramedic for a smaller town in mid Missouri and…
This week was going to be slow and relaxed as I completed paperwork and purchased stuff for the boat. Then my dad decided on his 66 birthday he would give…