The music’s beat at Carnival helps keep the rhythm in the street as dancers jiggle their way to towards the end of a three mile parade route. The float carried the music, food and beverages (beer and cocktail drinks). The dancers glistening faces wore exhausted smiles as they swayed past. We arrived in Curacao two days prior and…
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A Bike Ride in Indonesia
Like the sails on our boat we felt our Dahon folding bikes were essential to our voyage around the world. The bikes gave us freedom to travel away from the harbor and to get into the guts of a culture. Sure you can hop on a bus or grab a taxi in most places, but…
Survival Tips to Live on Boat…With Spouse
Once people hear we sailed the world on our 35 foot boat, Moorea, they wonder how we did it. They don’t wonder about the sailing around the world part. They can’t imagine how could we live on a boat, the size of a walk-in closet, and not kill each other. Our Tried & Tested Survival…
He’s Cute and Handy
“If you can’t find him cute, at least find him handy.”This is a phrase I heard from my seventy year old friend, Don. Every time he’d say this, his smile would be wide and toothy. When it comes to my husband, I feel I got both. He’s a cute handyman. Luckily for me he…
No Microwave Needed
Just before Thanksgiving, my husband decided to demo our 1960′s decrepit kitchen. For two years I lived with a stove where only two burners worked and an oven that wouldn’t latch shut. The black painted cabinets had a permanent greased stained finished and the pink tile was chipped from years of abuse. But the kitchen had some good…
How to Prepare Your Body for Eating Street Food
We Americans are very wary of eating food from street vendors especially street vendors in other countries. We are this way because there is a chance of getting sick. In my experience of traveling to over 30 countries, I can count only one instance of food borne illness. Sure there have been upset stomachs and…
Our First Winter Living on a Boat
I will never forget our first winter living on Moorea. It was cold! Normally the briny waters in the marina would not crust over with ice. In our area it would rarely drop to freezing temperatures long enough to make a crunchy layer on the water. So we didn’t expect it to be too cold…we…
5 Things to Know When Eating Street Food
When traveling abroad one of the most memorable experiences is the local cuisine. To get the local fare, make sure to go beyond the tourist sites and find where the natives eat which may mean eating Street Food. 1. It’s Authentic Cuisine No one is catering to your foreign tastes like tourist hotels do. Instead…
Tune into My Interview on Blog Talk Radio
Making Your Dreams Come True for 2012 I will be on BlogTalkRadio December 28th at 5:30PM (Arizona Time). Tune in to hear about how we (an Average Middle-Class Couple) were able to make our dream of sailing the world come true. Write up from BlogTalkRadio Kelly Girl Waterhouse grew up in Minnesota, practically in the middle of…
What’s it like living on a 35 foot boat?
This is one question we are asked when people hear about our voyage. It’s a quick question to a long answer and when we think of all the things a person has to keep a house running, it’s different for a boat. In a boat, you have to evaluate everything you put into it. Why? …