Cashman is a social-casino app that looks and sounds like a pokies room but operates very differently behind the scenes. For Australian players the most important facts are simple: you…
We left Bonaire on January 3, 2026, for our longest passage yet, sailing 560 NM to St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Who knew that this would be the…
According to AI, sailing from Colombia to the ABC Islands (Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao) is widely considered one of the most challenging passages in the Caribbean and among the top five…
How do I squeeze a sailing season into a few paragraphs? Perhaps the better question would be: why did I wait so long to update our travel journal? The simple answer…
“For the Benefit of the World”, the proud motto of the Panama Canal, bears some truth, especially for international maritime trade and recreational cruising. Completed in 1914, Panama Canal…
I always loved “Panama” by Van Halen and what better song to play when approaching Panama City on a rainy late August morning? While we were singing along, rocking around…
Our second visit to Costa Rica offered everything we were hoping for - and more than we expected. It was a wild, 12-hour ride from Nicaragua to Costa Rica;…
It seems like an eternity since our last travel update. We left Mexico far behind, visited Nicaragua, and have now been cruising in Costa Rica for the last eight weeks. But…
Banderas Bay: the most southern location during our first cruising season in Mexico - now the starting point for our exploration of remaining Pacific Mexico. We were treated to a…