Close to nature and at her whim
There is always something going on at the cafe in the small village of Enxames. It’s a no frills café with several tables inside and outside under a large metal awning. The espresso is 50¢, the galao (café latte) 70¢, a glass of wine or …
For most of us growing up caused a trauma. Either we were born during wars, dictatorships or military rule, in an oppressive society, with a despotic father, a cruel mother, in an intolerant religious family or in an institution. We were abandoned, abused, bullied or …
On land I feel like a fish out of water. Not in my natural habitat anymore. It’s so different to be back on land and in a big city. So much concrete. I could hug every tree. In Berlin every single city tree is numbered …
A kid in my neighborhood in Hamburg, American I think, owned taped US versions of Sesame Street, very unusual for us who had never even seen a tape recorder before. And then he introduced me to a new world. I was six or seven and …
Hailed as our savior in clean mobility and finally fully embraced by the automotive industry, lithium or 3Li is the main component in the electric car batteries. Tesla Motors jump-started this e-car revolution and its founder Elon Musk took over from the late Steve Jobs …
My dream was to live sustainably and Radu’s dream was to travel. We found the SV Imagine and combined our dreams. We pushed off the dock three years ago and I started writing while sailing into Mexico, in the cockpit, typing into my cell phone. …
This was a windy season! Maybe we were always in the wrong spot at the wrong time this spring or that low pressure field over the Pacific was holding out for too long continuously sending winds over the Baja California to the Sea of Cortez, …
San Diego is playing Miami today. Humidity is through the roof. It’s smoldering hot. I am sweating. Moving just a little bit feels like running a sprint. Even my brain is lazy and I can only come up with some lame 80’s song for a …
Nature is exuberantly creative, inventive and expansive but always, well, natural. The artificial is a human invention. Only humans can and want to escape the natural. Humans pursue the artificial relentlessly. The artificial seems to make us feel secure. Germs are fought with drugs and …
In 2020 regulations dictate in Washington State and California that the hull paint on pleasure vessels should be of the non-copper kind and/or have a very slow leaching rate. Thousand of pleasure boats are mostly sitting at the docks and are continually leaching copper into …
It took us months but there she is in all her restored glory ready for new adventures. Completed as hull #54 on the 7th of March 1969, our Imagine turned 50 this year. Radu discovered on the day that this hull ID number is actually …
You might remember a time when sitting around and staring into space was a pastime. A pastime of a time past. Now young, old, women, kids, men, everyone is busy all the time. Every increment of time is filled, with work, commuting, family, entertainment. I …
Iceland has everything: breathtaking landscape, glaciers, volcanoes, waterfalls, fish, sheep and energy. And so much of it. Countries worldwide try to save energy and find alternative energy sources. Uniquely Iceland will never have to worry about energy nor fresh water. This volcanic island is sitting …