BETTY ANN – SOUTHBOUND 2013

WEDNESDAY, 23 OCTOBER  We leave the slip at Belle Viu Marina, in Wakefield, RI bound for Charleston, S.C,. Most likely we will pull into Chesapeake Bay for the inland route around Cape Hatteras, but if Neptune were to grant my wish for favorable wind and seas – unlikely given...

Goulash / American Chop Suey

Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef. Almost an entire box of ziti (or your favorite pasta) 1 Can Tomato Soup 1 or 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped Ground Black Pepper Steps: Get a nice big pot of water boiling with some salt (if it tastes like tears then it’s probably...

Dream – Night of 2014-11-20

Been a while since I’ve had a dream decent enough to log, woke up this morning to a pretty good one: I meet a blonde-haired blue-eyed girl in a writing class, Alina. She is from Russia. Write a script together for an assignment. We end up seeing each other...

Dream – Night of 2014-10-13

Paddling down river Curves and loops Last corner see ocean Taste water – “It’s definitely the ocean, water is getting salty.” Make it to beach.  Go swimming but keep accidentally getting PFD on. Swimming Pool Laps Race K Keep losing because my arms hit stuff, or lane is too narrow...

Dream – Night of 2014-10-11

I Am The One Two brothers in bunk beds. One declares “dude…I think I am the one.” (a la Matrix). As soon as he says that, a blue shimmery “force field” surrounds him. Other brother says “yeah right”. Brother one says “No, watch, I’ll prove it to you.  I can fly....

Dream – Night of 2014-10-09

This was a pretty cool one: this is new In some sort of casino or possibly a mall with a Japanese girl, and we have apparently been friends for a long time. She has lost her job and is crying that she’ll have no money to live.  She has...

BETTY ANN – 2014 NORTHBOUND

The journal for this trip really begins shortly after last year’s fall run to Charleston. Eric Baruzzi (Officer in Charge, USCG Station Point Judith) mentioned he hadn’t seen my journal (still haven’t finished it) and while talking about the trip Eric commented he’d really like to join the crew....

Dream – Night of 2014-09-19

College dorm ground floor one entire wall is a window window continues underground so that I can see the dirt and stone below, kind of like a giant ant farm. snakes everywhere falling through from the grass above in front of the glass and then disappearing into the building...

Dream – Night of 2014-09-18

Not much to report on here: Went to the moon with friend from work Special new kind of craft A bunch of other people on it, I think it might have been a public vacation” type deal On the lunar surface we come upon the remains of an alien...

Dream – Night of 2014-09-10

Big Dream #1 My cousin and her husband, a musician duo, were invited to open for some Hollywood comedy awards show. The three of us arrived in Hollywood and went to the venue (one of those theaters that they do awards shows in). They played a couple songs and...