We really almost died only once because I forgot that I was driving on the left side of the road in New Zealand. After 4,000 kilometers...

Despite my age, it rarely happens, but it did so just after 2 a.m. at the Dunstan Downs High Country Sheep Station, 17 kilometers down...

As someone who regularly drives between Savannah, Georgia, and Northern Vermont, I’ve become attuned to the places along the way where I...

When you go to New Zealand, you will find a place where the beauty of the environment coalesces around the consciousness of a people....

Photo Source: Hidden Boston. My life began at Haddad's Ocean Café in Brant Rock. I was born in 1964, and as soon as my parents brought me...

Here is a selection of some of my blog posts from my erstwhile, oft-cited, award-winning blog Innkeeping Innsights in Stowe, which ran...

*Note: This story originally appeared in June 15, 2023 edition of VTDigger.org: https://vtdigger.org/2023/06/15/shawn-kerivan-goldfish-in...

We were happy in Tyrell Bay, in Carriacou, Grenada’s contribution to the Grenadines. The water was turquoise in the bay where we...

In 2015 we and some friends chartered a sailboat with a skipper in Guadeloupe. The skipper, a Frenchman named Denis, who had seen the...

A note to readers: I was reminded that seven years ago today, I published the final entry of my long-running blog, Innkeeping Innsights...

After travelling up the Windward Islands from Grenada all the way to Martinique, there is a temptation to compare experiences in a binary...

We recently moved the boat over to the Big Marina—Le Marin—which is about two nautical miles further in to the bay than Ste. Anne. We did...

Our recent episode with our batteries discharging has got me thinking about energy and how we manage it, not only here aboard Camino, but...

It would be easy to blame the flogging batteries on the arrival of our friends from the U.S., but after talking with some other seasoned...

We have been in Ste. Anne, Martinique, for two months, and we have loved it. From the French-influenced island culture to the proximity...

Since we came aboard Camino in Grenada last June, Chantal and I have heard from many people and friends who have enjoyed and supported...

When our boys were little nugs, we used a lot of cutesy euphemisms to describe bodily functions. Farting was called “the winds”: “Does...

We arrived in Ste. Anne, Martinique, in the Caribbean, over a month ago, and since we are likely to spend at least another month here,...

Since we began sailing, there has been no shortage of kindness showered upon us by fellow sailors, most of it undeserved, all of it...

This week might not have been a week filled with open water challenges, but it was an important week for us nonetheless. In order to...