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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.
I miss being on the boat so much, but I still have two more months before i am back aboard. Sigh. I guess I will just have to enjoy land…
I have spent the last month visiting friends and family in Florida, Tennessee, and Texas and am now driving up to Missouri with my parents to spend a month out…
Now that I have the boat hauled out of the water, put away, and the yard working on it I had to figure out how I was going to get…
Last blog I left you as I was motoring around the south side of Grenada on my way to Grenada Marine in St David, which is on the southeast corner…
A little over a month ago I finished up my mandatory two week, on boat quarantine in order to gain the right to be tested by the Grenada health officials….
Hey everyone. Why don’t you join me this afternoon for a Live YouTube video talking about boats! I will be sitting with my best friend and we will be discussing…
In the third lionfish hunting video I am going to go out and get another 8 or so lionfish and then I am going to show you three of my…
Join me at 11am EDT today as I share with you what all it was like being in quarantine in Grenada, the process to clear in, hauling the boat and…
On June 22nd I set sail from St Lucia bound for Grenada, so I could store my boat and fly back to The States for hurricane season….but that is a…
I hope you have enjoyed walking around Castries, St Lucia with me these last couple weeks. I really enjoyed my day and saw some amazing things, but the icing on…
Down here in the Caribbean we definitely get more than our fair share of amazing sunsets……but you will never hear me complain or take them for granted. 🙂 In fact,…
I have been telling you about the day I walked around the capital of St Lucia, which is called Castries these last several blogs. As with many Caribbean capitals, Castries…
I have been telling you about the day I spent walking around Castries, the capital of St Lucia, and last time I told you all about the Cathedral of the…
I just published the 2nd lionfish hunting video. In this vlog I will continue to spear 8 or so lionfish and then I will show you how to clean them…
The next stop I want to take you to around Castries, St Lucia is the most amazing in the entire capitol. The Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception is located…
Before I left St Lucia to sail to Grenada I want to make sure I spent a little time in the capital called Castries, since before this time I had…
Every year, since I have been in the Caribbean, I have noticed the skies have gone hazy every now and then. I found out years ago this was caused by…
Tomorrow (July 1st) at 11am I will be live on YouTube for my bi-weekly YouTube Live video. A few weeks ago I was requested to do a live video showing…
Can you think of a better way to watch the sun dip below the horizon than being on your boat in the tropics with friends abaord enjoying a drink and…
I do love when I find sea glass and pottery, which comes from broken glass and pottery being rubbed against rocks and sand until the jagged edges are rounded and…
I have loved being “stuck” here in St Lucia during these troubling times because I have been able to hang out with 8-10 boats for a few months now. During…
Four weeks ago or so I did a YouTube Live video (every other Wednesday at 11am eastern time) showing how I make the best chocolate chip cookies. I ended up…
I really hope you join me in two hours (at 11am eastern time on 6/17/20) for my latest YouTube Live video. All you have to do is click on the…
That is easy. Someone sending me photos of recipes they have made from the cookbook. This is Barbara showing off some fish tacos…..and of course the Cooking on the Guiding…
One of the boats I have gotten to know here in St Lucia during this pandemic gave me a sour dough bread starter (think liquid yeast) and told me that…
Check out these two guys. Every morning I have been in Marigot Bay, St Lucia I have woken to them chirping away. They are about the size of my fist…
Back at the beginning of the pandemic I was anchored next to a family of four on a catamaran. We had waved back and forth a few times, but one…
Is there anything better than being the only boat in an anchorage as the sun goes down? My friend Diane on Tiki Tour took this photo of the Guiding Light…