Set A Course

  • Block Island, Rhode Island

    Block Island is lovely. it is the idyllic beach town. — except when I think about how white people brutally stole this land from indigenous people. And how white and… Read more

  • Bristol, RI

    We left Cuttyhunk and needed a convenient place for Michael and Lori to catch a flight back to CA. We headed to Bristol, Rhode Island, which is on the northern… Read more

  • Cuttyhunk

    Still catching up on post! After meeting Mike, Lori And Kara in Jamestown and after many restaurants, ferrys, walks and more restaurants Kara took off and the rest of the… Read more

  • From Sandy Hook through NYC

    We are terrible bloggers. We are clearly behind in our posting. Between getting accustomed to Haven, some boat work, passage planning, and enjoying where we land, we have not posted… Read more

  • The Start

    This is our view this evening. West sunset, a calm anchorage, just south of NYC at Sandy Hook. How did we get here—living on a boat? Debbie and I discovered… Read more

  • San Juan Del Sur

    Last stop. Heading off the ferry we headed towards the west coast, San Juan Del Sur is a fishing village making a transition to a tourist destination. The transition is… Read more

  • Two volcanoes on an island in a lake in Nicaragua

    Ometepe. After navigating our exit from Granada (by driving around and around lots of one-way, no-name streets, Liv asking for directions in Spanish, and then around again), we headed southeast… Read more

  • Nicaragua

    After two hurricanes and an earthquake this fall, our November travel plans had changed multiple times. The original plan was a week in the British Virgin Islands sailing with Olivia… Read more

  • Our BVI Gallery

    Set A Course is a fairly new blog for us focusing on sailing. We document all our travels at Casuallyobserved.com so head over to check out the gallery for this… Read more

  • Back Again

    We arrived home last night and were greeted by Chicago the way Chicago is in the middle of December – cold and snow with more snow today. What a contrast. Only yesterday we… Read more

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It is here that we will try to record the good, the bad and the uglies of our journey to …