Fishing, on Kwajalein, From Pohnpei

We are sitting here on Pohnpei, on a rainy, windy day, arms sore from a few long days of some great surf on P-Pass. Today the surf is blown out, and we are laying about, and I suddenly remember that I have a blog… Okay, not exactly, but we were talking about how long it […]

Here Be Dragons…

I have always loved the saying – the legend on maps – from the Middle Ages and the time of oceanic exploration that says, “here be dragons”. It was such a great description of those places marked on maps, yet to be discovered, where people had not yet traveled, or had not explored fully enough […]

Ye Olde Patches McGee

It’s been a little bit! I have been terrible at keeping up lately. For reasons I am not able to go into (for reasons I am not able to go into), I have been kind of buried in my own misery of working too much and sorely missing my status as a curmudgeonly old retired […]

Just a typical day on Kwaj

What do we do on any given day here on this little island? Mostly we work. Which is a lot tougher than I thought it would be after retiring and traveling for the last couple of years. But, it is all made up for in a moment when we remember that we get to live […]

Happy New Year!

Just a few weeks late… New years here on Kwajalein is a pretty big deal. Everyone was out, and everyone was festive. Tam and I were on call on New Years eve, so we found ourselves curled up in bed by ten-thirty that night. I would say the highlight of the night was the fireworks […]

A Very Ebeye Christmas

Another Christmas was coming around, and Scrooge and Scroogette were wondering what to do to shore up their sagging holiday spirit (actually, they were trying to find a quiet place to hide), so they went to the neighboring island of Ebeye for something a bit different. Kwajalein (where we live) is a tiny island itself […]

What a strange little place.

Well, I have been here three weeks. I definitely have a bunch of thoughts about life here on Kwajalein. First, let me just say that I will not put a bunch of pictures in here until I go through all the rules with someone high up in the garrison, because I don’t want to get […]

My walk yesterday

I took a walk yesterday, in the morning, and, yes, it was freezing cold. Strangely, I ran into a couple people I know, and of course the topic of the election the night before came up. All right, before I go too much further, I will apologize ahead of time for any statements in here […]

Well, It Looks Like It’s Happening…

Back in April (we were still living in Thailand at the time), Tam and I found some more information about the Marshall Islands. We knew people that went over there regularly while we were living in Hawaii, and they always came back raving about this secret mysto-amazing place with friendly people, relatively intact culture, warm […]

Chiricahua National Monument

I took a hike the other day, just to get away from the craziness of trying to get Tam’s mom moved into her second assisted living facility in one month (yeah, don’t ask). Tam had visited this place a month before, and recommended it, so up I went. Chiricahua National Monument is about two hours […]