Amber Jones' Adventures (aka, The Reluctant Sailor)

Dear friends and armchair travelers, forgive my long neglect of your need for rousing tales of seafaring snafus and disasterly disorders. ...

It was a sunny, 70-degree day. The cherry blossoms had peaked. But I was hard at work, unpaid: worked up two contracts, took a call about...

Here I am at the southernmost point in the continental United States. It is windy and cool, and I only packed shorts in my suitcase. This is...

I've been known to whine now and then about the vagaries of sailing--as I see them from my point of view. Pope always claimed I was l...

Emotional roller coaster: a situation or experience that alternates between making you feel excited, exhilarated, or happy and making you fe...

   Day 1: Hotel Bambou, Trois-Ilets (across the bay from Fort de France), Martinique; quite a contrast from buildings we would encounte...