There are a couple of posts missing in my archives, will insert them before this one as soon as I find them. Slowly but surely we move closer to New York City, and although the highway consists now of 6 lanes in every direction we get stuck in a traffic jam in the pouring rain. Everyone wants to drive into The City tonight which leads to a total traffic chaos. We thus decide to circumvent Manhattan on our way to…
Right now, only a few people know that this website even exists (again), so nobody could ask about where or when the sailing bug bit us. The travel bug is a long-time family member, but the oceans? I’m from a land-locked country, my on-the-water experience limited to canoeing on the Moselle river as a kid. Connie’s been brought up close to the North and Baltic Seas, but without spending any time on boats. She did have a seafaring uncle, but,…
We are ready – may the adventure begin! After successfully putting the first 5000 kilometers behind us, we’re happily relaxing outside our little wood cabin with a few cans of ‘Moose head’ beer. No surprise, the moose is a popular animal here as we have finally arrived in Canada, more precisely in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The flight from Frankfurt to Halifax was uneventful – probably the best one can say these days about a transatlantic flight. Apart from a non-stop crying…
Or: SnailTrails – reborn! Or rather: SnailTrails – the awakening! Because, in fact, the snails never really left our lives, were never really gone. Just maybe a little asleep for a while… The awakening serves two concrete purposes: this blog will first of all make accessible again the contents of the SnailTrails website that documented our 2009-2011 adventure criss-crossing the Americas and Africa aboard Archie, our modified Land-Rover Defender. People have asked us where they can access all the posts…