tHere you will find stories from our travels. they can be long or short, serious or for fun. We share them with our family, friends and whomever has the time to lean back and (hopefully) enjoy reading them.
We are members of Ocean Cruising Club (OCC). It is a club for blue water cruisers with some miles under the keel. We regularly publish articles in the club magazine – the Flying Fish. Below is the article on our Pacific crossing in April 2022 – ‘The Pacific drift‘ as Read more…
It sneaked up on us yesterday evening. At night. Late. Ten minutes before midnight. It starts in Kiribati, a small island group just west of the international date line. In 1994 the government of Kiribati decided that all of their 33 small atolls, spread over more than 5 million square Read more…
I sat on the side of our dinghy with my feet already in the water. We, Theresa, Morgan from Nomadica and myself, had just arrived the false pass at Totegegie, an island in the Gambier Archipelago. We had carefully gone through the pass and dropped the dinghy anchor in a Read more…
We have had request for ‘The ESCAPE red cap’ ever since we wrote about it in our blog here. It is a cool cap that can be used for sun or rain We then decided to open a small shop for Escape West merchandise to share with our followers our Read more…
we finally arrived Curacao after 14 months of waiting. We are ready for the next chapter in our Explore- Learn – Share
‘On behalf of the entire Ocean Cruising Club I’m delighted to congratulate you onbeing chosen to receive the David Wallis Trophy for 2020 for your delightfulFlying Fish story entitled, Voyagin With Vetle’. To our big surprise, we were awarded the David Wallis Trophy for our article in the OCC Flying Read more…
The VHF radio sparked again. It was 4 am on March 20th. I was setteling in for the final approach to Curacao. ‘sy Escape, this is the Curacao coast guard. Please answer‘. I pushed the send button ‘Good morning curacao coast guard, this is sy Escape‘. ‘Please state your intentions Read more…
There is a place in the Kruger National Park in South Africa where one can sit and overlook the savanna. I do not remember exactly where in the park it is, but it is north. Further north than most tourists venture. It is 200-300 meters above the savanna and it Read more…
It hit us yesterday breakfast time. Hit like too much red hot chili peppers. It is one year since we put out the ‘it is time‘ post. We had to re-read it to see what in the world drove us to draw up the homepage – let alone go forward, Read more…