This note is written from an anchorage on the rugged, sparsely populated coast of Labrador on our way to the Northwest Passage. As we move into position on the upper west coast of Greenland and onward through the Passage, I’ll send updates of our progress and describe the sights we come across that may interest you. […]
With a population of nearly ten million and at 85 percent the highest literacy rate in the Caribbean, the DR has much to recommend it, but proximity to a felicitous neighboring country is not among its best features. It occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola and is verdant, fecund and comparatively safe for human habitation. […]
Following an uneventful voyage of 380 nautical miles from Agadir, Morocco to Tenerife in the Canary Islands, I flew to Johannesburg, South Africa to meet up with Kitty and Grant coming from Florida and spend what turned out to be an unexpectedly enjoyable three weeks there. […]