It’s been such a long time ago since I posted to this blog, I’m having a hard time figuring out where to start. Every time I sit down to write, I’m soon enveloped with panic over all that I’ve missed since our last post. Once the panic sets in,…

The alarm sounded at 2:30 am. Ordinarily, the sound of an alarm at this hour of the morning would have startled me awake. However, I hadn’t slept a wink since my head hit the pillow 5-1/2 hours earlier. Jane and I were about to undertake a 75-mile offshore passage…

I just took a look, and it appears that our last blog post was way back on March 20th. That’s pretty close to nine months ago! We were in the Florida Keys, self-quarantining at anchor aboard Dejarlo for the COVID-19 pandemic, just beginning to pick up steam and wreak…

She’s been out of the water for 328 days. She’s just completed a four-month refit, polishing and painting her bottom, updating and adding to her electronics, and just generally brightening her already happy smile. We’ve added all new electronics, including radar, an AIS transponder and forward scanning sonar. As…

It wasn’t like we weren’t half-way expecting the call. And frankly, we deserved the chewing out. After all, we hadn’t posted to our blog, WanderOurWay.com, since March 16th! So, the call went something like this: “Where the hell are you guys?!?! Are you still alive? Did the boat sink? Did…

Following our stay in Carlsbad, New Mexico, and our visit to Carlsbad Caverns, we thought it time to get into a little more civilization. Jane was requiring some minor dental repairs and the RV needed to have its wheel bearings re-packed. We headed back into the State of Texas…

While visiting Big Bend National Park, we stayed at an RV Park in Lajitas, Texas, about twenty miles from the park entrance. Our RV was parked a short walk from the Rio Grande River and surrounded by beautiful mountains with exciting hiking trails. The daytime scenery was breath-taking. But…