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Our third season of sailing did not accumulate as many sailing miles as our second, however, these sailing miles were certainly novel to us as we traveled from Florida to Guatemala, visiting Belize on the way. Then we did a road trip in the States visiting family and friends and also did some backpacking on the Appalachian Trail.

We get the dinghy engine fixed, and we prepare for a two-week trip away from the boat.

The ten-day festival of Río Fer wraps up with lots of parades and other events. In addition to the festival, we attened a couple of other events.

A ten-day festival in Río Dulce kicked off this week and the highlight event that we attended was seeing the horse parade.

We continue to troubleshoot our dinghy engine, which consumed whole the week.

New travel adventures, hot waterfalls and breakfast with a model when not working around the boat.

We joined a group of cruisers on a day trip from the Rio Dulce marina area to a waterfall along the Caribbean Sea. This meant passing back through the canyon entrance of the Rio Dulce and that was worth the trip alone. In addition, we visited some hot springs and other sights of the Rio Dulce.

Both Guatemala and Sondra had birthdays this week. These were celbrated with cake, horses and parades.

This week we will cover methods for learning information about Rio Dulce and traveling within Guatemala, along with some of our recent activities.

Our second week back home had us completing tasks on the boat to make life on the Rio Dulce as comfortable and fun as possible. In addition to shading our boat and getting our “car” back in order, we continue to explore Hacienda Tijax and the nearby area.

After two months away we need to do get the boat livable again while we get back into the swing of marina life in Guatemala.

We finish our time in the States and make our way back to Utopia with a little detour to Antigua Guatemala put in the mix.

The last part of our USA tour took place on the west coast where we visited family in Central Oregon and Northern California. Activities included hiking, a prison, and a baseball game.

Our road trip reached its westernmost point in Mississippi before beginning the return back north through Florida, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

With the hike over, we begin a road trip south to visit friends and family. In this post we start out in Maine and end up Alabama where we went our first kayak trip on a river with rapids.

Lemonade completes her last six days of her planned section hike on the Appalachian Trail (AT) with mixed results while Trail Horse stays warm and dry in the van.

This week we encountered the hardest part of the entire AT and met a legend.

We are hitting the open road, and Sondra is hitting the Appalachian trail again in New Hampshire and Maine. Trail Horse and Lemonade are back in action!

This week our luggage remained in one location while we explored Cape Ann by day. Here is a recap of places and sights we saw in and around the Massachusetts towns of Gloucester, Essex, and Rockport, as well as a sail on Massachusetts Bay.

We ended up traveling over 3,000 miles this week via boats, buses, cars, planes, subway, and a train from Utopia in Rio Dulce, Guatemala to Quest II Gloucester, Massachusetts.