Many people appreciate the name of our sailboat, but you can tell that some hesitate and have a questioning look... This blog is for those individuals who don't really know much about albatrosses and who have the concern that naming a boat 'Albatross' might be a bad idea...

I got to thinking about the last part of my last blog, and it didn't sit right with me. I don't want to be guilty of advancing (or perpetuating) some kind of mythological halo around "cruisers". (Exactly what defines a "cruiser" is a subject for another blog, and I think the conclusion would be ambiguous.) [...]

We haven't really explored all that much yet. The first two full days here have been spent cleaning up Albatross (that did take several hours, as predicted), provisioning at the large CCC ("Say Say Say") downtown, and doing a huge amount of laundry. Thanks again to Ken of Rosebud for breakfast at Rancho [...]

Butch and I set the alarm for 6am yesterday, weighed anchor and were underway at 6:30am. Pulled into Marina Palmira at 3:30pm. Ken met us at the top of the ramp and waited for us to go through all the check-in paperwork (not alone -- he had a cerveza in hand) and then took us down to where Rosebud [...]

Written Thursday, Feb 25

Okay, land-lubbers, here's another "how living on a boat is different than living in a house" installment. Specifically, this is how living in an anchorage, no onshore showers or other facilities, works.