May 8, 2021 I got up at 6am today and I'm writing this while drinking my coffee. It’s raining outside. In a few hours Jeffrey, who owns a taxi, will drive me to the airport. My flight to Miami departs at 3pm. In Miami I'll change planes and fly to Washington DC. It’s the end of … Continue reading Grenada: Marina Port Louis, end of the trip
May 3rd, 2021 I am at anchor at Martin’s Bay in the quarantine zone. It s raining hard outside. It has been raining on and off since I made land fall on Monday around 1am. Entering the bay and anchoring during the day doesn’t involve any challenge; there are no shallows or tricky currents, which … Continue reading Grenada: Martin’s Bay in quarantine
St Martin: Reunited April 24, 2021 As planned, I landed in St Martin last Wednesday in a rainy afternoon. Antares was on the water when I got to the yard but without her mast. The poor boat was a mess and I knew when I boarded that it would take longer than expected to get … Continue reading St Martin: Reunited
April, 15 2021 Writing from the train that is taking Sofia and I from New York back to Washington DC. NY city was very much alive even though most humans on the streets were wearing masks. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the trip was interrupted by Sofia’s soccer practices and we didn’t get to do everything we … Continue reading DC & New York: quality time, gene editing, and the trip to Antares
March 28, 2021 One more week, one more weekend. Not much to report. Several religious celebrations are taking place, creating the conditions for the virus to spread. Thursday was a holiday here; the Feast of the Annunciation. I didn’t teach. Today is Sunday of Palms and the streets were brimming with Homo Sapiens. I just … Continue reading Beirut: religion and COVID, Phoenician Wall, Rounding the Horn
Mach 22, 2021 It was an uneventful weekend. Saturday we were invited for lunch at a friend’s house to celebrate her birthday. We had home-made Lebanese food, arak, plenty of wine, and multiple desserts. We came back late and Sunday we paid the consequences. But I did manage to go for a run at the … Continue reading Beirut: a pleasant weekend, still no government, progress planning the sailing trip
March 14, 2020 Yesterday we moved to another bubble where we continue to scape reality. We left the apartment yesterday, Saturday, morning and drove to El Kfour, a village in the mountains north of Beirut that overlooks the bay of Jounieh. We are staying at Beit Trad - Guest House. It used to be the … Continue reading El Kfour: escaping reality, a new interpretation of psychosis, got airplane tickets.
February 28, 2021 We arrived to Beirut on February 15, late afternoon, after a very long and tedious trip from Ecuador with scales in Atlanta and Paris. The city remains under lockdown; most businesses are closed and to go out one needs to get a permit from a government web site, indicating when you are … Continue reading Back in Beirut: lock-down, vaccines, and climate change
February 8, 2021 Because of the time difference with Beirut (-7h), my wife Natalia has to get up early several days a week to participate in virtual meetings; sometimes at 3:30am, often at 4 or 5am. I wake up when she does and can’t always go to back to sleep. This means that we have … Continue reading Casa Blanca: Clock Reversion
January 28, 2021 We are still here in Casa Blanca and will likely stay put for another two weeks. Beirut remains under a lockdown, apparently the most stringent in the world. We are in the mist of the rainy season. The skies are gray and heavy, the days humid and hot, and there are plenty … Continue reading Casa Blanca: Missing opportunities for the local economy
Sailing to the Pacific 