2002-2005 (c) GetJealous.com, All rights reserved. http://www.getjealous.com/tomandsuzie/rss.xml Priscilla, our wonderful home away from home for 8 years while we circumnavigated. After spending a couple of years living in the US on dirt, we have decided to continue voyaging until either we get too old or we stop having fun. https://www.getjealous.com/tomandsuzie https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4620035&go=tomandsuzie I still can't upload photos yet, but will keep trying! We went to the Rolling Stones concert, which was an interesting experience. Marnie is here now so we are going traveling with them this week. We finally arrived in Cuba! We are in Marina Hemmingway, about 10 miles west of Havana proper. We explored old town on Saturday but have stayed in the suburbs the last couple of days. Obsma is ... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4620035&go=tomandsuzie Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4372105&go=tomandsuzie The boat was ready to go at the end of November, and it was waiting at anchor at the end of Allan Lane. Our destination is Cuba. Tom lived there as a child when his father was stationed in Guantanamo Bay. But before the weather improved, Tom developed an infection follwing his recent minor surgery. That led to a several month delay, but now we are in Fort Lauderdale and the weather looks good f... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4372105&go=tomandsuzie Fri, 4 Dec 2015 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4324163&go=tomandsuzie After a year or so on the hard in Maryland, we moved Priscilla to Melbourne, Florida in November 2014. We took a short shake down cruise to the Bahamas in April 2015, and then began to plan our next voyage. We moved Priscilla to the Yacht Club in September while we were on a trial membership. We love the club and will likely join when we finish our travels but it doesn't make sense to join ... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=4324163&go=tomandsuzie Tue, 1 Sep 2015 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776095&go=tomandsuzie We arrived just after dark on Tuesday, a bit less than 3 1/2 days after leaving Trini. Had we gotten an earlier start we could have made it to Spanish Town. But we did not want to navigate in the dark, so we anchored in South Bay on Peter Island. It was well sheltered from the seas and we slept well! Tom got 11 hours of sleep. Passages are exhausting, even short ones.We checked in with the authori... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776095&go=tomandsuzie Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776093&go=tomandsuzie Our return to Trinidad was a bit of a disappointment. We had great expectations about finding Bernice the seamstress and having cushion covers and clothes made, but she is no longer doing work, or at least not around the marina. I had planned to get our teak varnished, and had gotten lazy about keeping it up because the man who did our varnish there 7 years ago was an artist and the price was ve... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2776093&go=tomandsuzie Fri, 19 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765394&go=tomandsuzie Grenada is where we crossed our outbound route and finished our circumnavigation. We are planning to celebrate with champagne, or should I say bubbly, from South Africa. Somehow we just haven't been in a celebrating mood yet. We are in a very nice marina in St. Georges. Tom worked all day on fixing the autopilot and stopping the thru hull leak. It was a good day, but we are still very tired f... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2765394&go=tomandsuzie Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2760081&go=tomandsuzie We had an extremely slow trip from St Helena to Brazil. Where were the trade winds? We never found them, and so we moved very slowly. But at least it was not scary or rough! After 16 mostly boring, but sometimes terrifying days (the spinnaker halyard broke and Tom went up the mast on a day when the seas were making the boat roll quite a bit), we arrived in Brazil. We have not done much explor... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2760081&go=tomandsuzie Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2760080&go=tomandsuzie After two weeks at sea, we were anxious to get to a port, any port! We arrived at St. Helena on a Saturday. It is a pretty impressive looking island from the sea. You wonder why anyone ever decided to land there, as it appears to mostly be big jagged mountains plunging right into the sea. But there is a bit of a low spot where a port was built and that's where we tied up to a mooring ball. Th... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2760080&go=tomandsuzie Sat, 9 Mar 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2744628&go=tomandsuzie Having read all of the Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency books, I felt I had to visit Botswana. Tom obliged, so here we are in the Okavango Delta at the & beyond Xaranna Lodge. Botswana lives up to its reputation of friendly people and arid countryside, except here in the Delta where we are enjoying the wonderful lagoons and waterways. Last evening we took a ride in mokoro canoes, which were poled ... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2744628&go=tomandsuzie Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:00:00 GMT https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2736895&go=tomandsuzie We are finally here! Nothing to report yet, as we are still getting our bearings. We have a rental car and sim cards for our phone and iPads, so that is a start. We have done quite a bit of touring already. We must have been anxious to get off the boat! Firstt, we spent a weekend in the Drakensburg Mountains at a beautiful lodge, the Montusi Mountain Lodge. It was a long drive, but a very pr... https://www.getjealous.com/blog.php?action=showdiaryentry&diary_id=2736895&go=tomandsuzie Mon, 5 Nov 2012 12:00:00 GMT