The most southern part of Spain--Andalucia--is so rich in history that it can be spellbinding, and that was certainly our reaction to much of what we experienced there. This is largely the result of Moorish influence that is still prevalent and felt nearly everywhere. After all, the Moors, [...]
Mid April of 2003 found us back in Gaeta, Italy, and contemplating whether to continue sailing or to move on to other things. We loved our life on Icarus, and certainly found the Mediterranean to be fascinating for its varied cultures, and we are not 'island hopping' types so [...]
We returned to Icarus in Marmaris, Turkey in May of 2002 to very interesting news. In those days, sailors communicated using what are called Single Sideband Ultra High Frequency radios, essentially the same ones used by those nerdy guys with their ham radios in the 1940s and 1950s and those clandestine [...]
We returned to Icarus quite early in the spring of 2001 after a winter in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The early return was driven by our daughter Leila's wedding. So we dropped all the things we had brought for Icarus in Marmarus, Turkey where he had spent the [...]
After sending Susanne off back to San Francisco and making the easy transit from Kos to Marmaris, Turkey, we settled in for a few days in the lovely marina there and then welcomed the arrival of Shadee, the eldest of our three daughters. She was with us [...]
We arrived back in Palma de Majorca early in 2000, at the end of the first week of April. We felt this gave us a real jump on the summer as it was a full month more than we'd had the previous year. We didn't feel pushed to get going [...]
We returned to sailing later than we had anticipated in Spring of 1999, in part because of the birth of our first grandchild in Toronto a couple of days after Christmas, and land travel for the winter. We picked up Dan the Van outside San Francisco in [...]
The six years we spent aboard our 39 foot sailing catamaran Icarus--from 1998 to 2004--were some of the very best of our lives, and we thought it would be worthwhile to put together some posts which would recount those years, from Gibraltar to Syria, Lebanon and Israel. We [...]
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