Want to know what it is like to snorkel in the Bay Islands of Honduras? Check out this video Lily and I made. The fun part about this one is…
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Welcome to the Guiding Light cruising & travel blog
I love travel!!! Regardless if it is sailing the Guiding Light to new islands or grabbing a backpack and flying somewhere. The thing I like almost as much is sharing travel experiences. With that said, welcome to my cruising & travel blog where you will find information and entertainment in blogs, podcasts, photos of the day, travel videos, and fun videos. I would love if you make comments and join the discussion. 🙂
You can read about a specific location in the travel guide section, check out one of the following catagories (cruising, food & drink, guest’s post, life ashore, misc, offshore, published works, sailing school, working on the boat), or check out all the blogs below.
No captain wants to hear the words “we are taking on water”, but if it does I hope you can resolve it as successfully as we did. Sadly, I ran…
Our chosen hurricane hole for this year was 20 miles up the Rio Dulce in Guatemala. Not only is this a secure place to leave the boat, but is an…
Belize has three of the four atolls in the Caribbean and Turneffe Atoll is the closest. From San Pedro we sailed 25 mile SE to the northern end of the…
We had one of the most frustrating AND breathtaking beginnings in Belize. We had just spent three and half days on passage from Cuba to Belize and sadly less than…
I just submitted the following article to be published in a How To section of a sailing magazine. As a loyal follower of ours I always like to give you…
A couple weeks ago I shared an article I wrote about the Top 10 in Cuba and it was picked up by All At Sea as the beginning of a…
A couple weeks ago I shared an article I wrote about the Top 10 in Cuba and it was picked up by All At Sea as the beginning of a…
Below is the second part of another article I wrote and am hoping a magazine will pick up, but i wanted to share it with you guys first. I am…
Below is the first part of another article I wrote and am hoping a magazine will pick up, but i wanted to share it with you guys first. I am…
I hope you like the story I wrote and posted over the last 2 weeks about Cuba. I am hoping a magazine will publish it. With that said I wrote…
This is the ninth (and final) part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers…
This is the eighth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! The…
This is the seventh part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! Arriving…
This is the sixth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! The…
This is the fifth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! We…
This is the fourth part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! The…
This is the third part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote down and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! Once…
This is the second part of our Cuban Adventures that I wrote and am submitting to a sailing magazine to see if they will publish it. Fingers crossed! As the…
When Lily and I were about to sail to Cuba last spring we invited my cousin to join us. She came aboard the Guiding Light in Pepillo Salcedo, Dominican Republic…
Our group included my wife and two daughters (18+) and a fiance, five in total. We had a great time with Captain Shane and Lily on the Guiding Light. Explored…
We started the cruising season in the Rio Dulce, Guatemala. While we really liked cruising the river and the community that is there, we were not impressed with the may…
On this occasion we had to renew our visas in Belize (they only give you 30 days at a time), so we took the dinghy a couple miles across the…
Back in February of this year you might remember that Lily and I had her daughters join us for a week as we cruised the southern coast of Puerto Rico….
As I wrote earlier, we loved cruising the Rio Dulce in Guatemala. One place we had a blast playing at with our guests was Restaurante El Viajero, located just inside…
Last month Lily had to go back to Mexico for a week and she was very excited when she got back, because she brought a Mexican flag to fly on…
We got back to Guiding Light after leaving her on the hard in Rio Dulce, Guatemala during the 2022 hurricane season on November 3rd. Once we left my friend’s house…
For our last blog about South Korea I want to write about a variety of places and stores. First is where we spent our last morning since our flight was…
To pick up from the last blog, we are on a subway heading north to Seoul with our luggage in tow. We chose to spend our last night in South…
Yesterday I wrote how we took the subway up to Seoul from my friend’s place on the Air Force base south of the metro area. Well it turns out is…