John’s Blogspot Archive

I think that I’ve mentioned before, that in my plans range we have “Tread Lightly” which came from a little poem about how we should treat the earth...

Pilgrim. Its Thursday today, here in New Zealand anyway as we get the new day before anyone else.  I’ve promised myself that I’d do my best to...

Ran it last weekend. We had a great time!  I enjoyed the happy, friendly group of guys I had here for the weekend, there were lots of laughs, a...

It was one of those days today. Nice autumn weather, lots of chores still outstanding but I figured that I had better things to do. Instead, Denny...

Time to get back to work, on the blog at least as I’ve been very busy on other things.  I got home from Chile to find a pile of work stacked up and...

Its been a real scramble the last few days so I've not been able to post, but its catchup time. So here is a short post and some pics from our days...

Its been a very good day today. One of the jobs that we’d come here to Punta Arenas to do was to contact the appropriate people in the  Armada...

Punta Arenas, when we read cruising stories, or those tales from the round the world yacht races, or old Joshua Slocums book it seems a place of...

A graveyard of dreams and ships.  These are Cape Horners, there are the remains of wrecks all along this shore, skeletal remains sticking up...

And other things. More on “those boats”. We’e been to Puerto Varas today, the main town on a major lake near here.  Its very different to the...

The travelling boots have been doing a lot of exploring,  I went with them of course, it wouldnt pay to let them go by themselves, you never...

Well, the Boot brothers have been doing a lot of walking, together of course, you’ll rarely find them apart from each other.  I went along with...