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This story story about a love triangle between British con-man, a Trinidadian young man and a Guyanese woman, a life raft party, a SCUBA search and recovery operation, rebuilding a carburetor while underway and many great sailing friends. It all started with a loose rope I noticed about 8 weeks ago. We carry a Bombard 6-person offshore life raft on Ad Astra in the event of a catastrophic failure of Ad Astra.

How much do you pay for rent? or mortgage? Between my mortgage, property insurance and utilities I was paying over $60,000 a year in Austin. Yesterday, I made a quick post on facebook when I realized that my “rent” payment here in Martinique is just 1€ for 90 days. Martinique is 15,000 times cheaper than Austin for my family. For the same home in SF or LA? Insane. This post turned out to resonate with a lot of friends with a bunch of fun questions.

Provisioning is like a RPG quest chain This devil sold me a baguette, a yummy cheese & ham croissant, and a regular croissant for just €3.90. After completing my morning quest chain, I opened the reward chest and this is what I received! €20 – 1 liter of smooth, brown sipping Rum €10 – 6 fresh Mahi steaks €12 – A head of fresh lettuce, 4 tomatoes, 1 mango, 2 tasty cantaloupes €5 – 4 carrots, green onions, 2 oranges €3.

It has been over two months since I last made an update for Ad Astra. I love the blogs where you can see what is going on every day / week with folks, all of their hikes, sails, photos and adventures. But I knew that would not be the blog that I kept for Ad Astra. For one, my interests change constantly and if I set myself up with a scheduled blog update then I would fear that it come to feel like some sort of work.