Travelin' With The Kid
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Not Back to School: September 2007
 Well as predicted, mother ocean called us back to visit and I couldn’t think of a better place than the Outer Banks in North Carolina. There are some awesome learning opportunities here. Our studies this year include Aerospace Engineering, and what better place than the state that was “First in Flight”? Our trip included an afternoon flying kites on the very grounds where Orville and Wilbur Wright launched man into the space-age at Kitty Hawk, well really it is Kill Devil Hills, near Jockey's Ridge State Park, but who’s nitpicking on what we remember from our history? Before we left we studied the plane and the kites that were used at the Wright Brothers Aerospace Museum in Dayton, Ohio, but there's nothing like actually going to the place where flight began! |
05 August
Windjammer Ships and Pirate Adventures: Travelin’ With the Kid
Day 7: Anguilla February 23, 2007
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Anguilla is a place I’d like to explore more. |
06 June
Windjammer Ships and Pirate Adventures: Travelin’ With the Kid
Day 6: Statia (Saint Eustatius) February 22, 2007 Saint Eustatius, or Statia, as the locals call it, was my favorite place on this trip. It is also what you would call the "real Caribbean". |
The real Caribbean is one you won't ever see from a cruise ship. The Windjammer fleet is rare and so are the attitudes aboard. Shipmates are just as interested in the real Caribbean as we are and that's what I like about sailing like this. You are on a huge, beautiful antique sailing ship with other sailing nuts going places only sailors - and - pirates know about. 02 June
Journeys in Our Own Backyard: Learning Moments and Oh Baby Camping
 At our house we have a saying that each moment is an opportunity to learn something. It’s been a great idea to carry through each day.Recently we headed out on the dusty trail to camp in one of our favorite places to paddle, Clifty Creek, which feeds Grayson Lake in the fine state of Kentucky. It was the first time we had the kayaks on the roof of the car and the sleeping bags packed in the trunk of the car. Two nights in the cool May weather before the humid midwest heat ascends. We were looking forward to some very cool moments...... |
17 May
Windjammer Ships and Pirate Adventures: Travelin’ With the Kid
Day 5: Nevis -- February 21, 2007
Imitation is the Best Form of Flattery
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| As we saw in St. Barths, with the Mick Jagger imitator, a mirror image of something great is just that, or is it? Nevis, though in the French West Indies, is British, and looked to us anyway - a lot like Dominica. There was a rain forest, few people and the people were incredibly friendly - the ones we met anyway...Like Dominica, it teased us to explore further. It seemed to be a place where nature prevails and commercialism is prohibited. Twenty years ago in St. Maarten a guy named Rainbow gave me a pair of bracelets he made of beads from natural plants on the island. He told me that they would bring me luck. They have. It wasn’t until a medicine walk in Nevis this year that I discovered this is true and what the name of the beads are. The bracelet has brown beads and red beads, both of native plants, the red beads are called Jumbie beads and are used in a tea to calm colic, or just about anything else that ails you.After our morning Medicine walk, a three hour moderate hike up the dromant volcano on Nevis, we relaxed on the deck of the Polynesia all afternoon. Normally we travel with our Teva sandles, but were told that Chaco's were far superior. Well let me tell you, I'll take the Teva's anyday up the side of a volcano! |
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