Close Hauled Down the Thorny Path

(For the non-sailor readers, there is a band around the direction of the wind in which sailing is not possible; that close to the wind the sails do not catch enough wind to propel the boat forward. If a sailboat

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What Comes Down Must Go Up: Hiking the Caribbean Islands

Our driver in Dominica verbalized the arduous lesson our calves and quads have been schooled in repeatedly over the last year of Caribbean hiking: “What comes down must go up.” Don’t be fooled: Any relief you think you’re getting in

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What’s Our Plan?

March 2015 – Samaná, Dominican Republic We had sailed over to the Haitises National Park in the northeast of the Dominican Republic that afternoon, leaving our slip at Puerto Bahía Marina in Samaná for the two days we planned to be

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