Preparing to leave is always an interesting time. We spend lots of time fixing things when we arrive only to put everything back in it’s place when we get ready to depart.
Food bags prepared at the crew house
Cape Town: prepping to leave
Happy New Year from Hobart, Tasmania
Happy New Year to all and have a wonderful 2016!!
From Telemed Crew
Fireworks for bringing in 2016
Best Wishes for the best 2016 for each and everyone of you!
Linda’s Three Charities
Before the sun sets on 2015, consider making a year-end contribution to one of Linda’s charities. Your tax-deductible donation can make a difference for someone in 2016 and beyond.
Here are some suggested donation levels – any amount will help!
$25 – Green Monster Level: $1 for every time Linda and team had to go below to fix the spinnaker during Leg 1’s “Kitemare”
$100 – Albatross Level: $1 per every trip Linda makes up the 95-foot mast during the round-the-world race
$400 – Neptune Level: $0.01 for each of the 40K miles sailed by Linda and Team ClipperTelemed+ Continue reading
How to Watch the Sydney Hobart Race
Merry Christmas! Can’t make it to the Sydney Heads to watch the Sydney Hobart start with the other 600,000 spectators? Watch the Sydney Hobart Race online via Yahoo!7.
Live coverage of the start will be from 7:30pm-9:00pm CT on Christmas Day in the US, with the start at 8:00pm CT (local time in Sydney: 12.30pm AEST livestream begins, 1pm start, Friday December 26, aka Boxing Day). Continue reading
Cape Town, Robben Island
One last post prior to taking off on the Sydney Hobart Race tomorrow. It has been amazing that everyone in Sydney seems to know about the race and are quite impressed when they find out we are part of it. The guy at the Microsoft store was really excited to meet someone that was doing it!
One of the sight seeing adventures I did have was a trip to Robben Island, home of Nelson Mandela for the 18 years he was held as a political prisoner. Javi and I checked it out together. It was our last fun time other than Crew dinner later that night prior to his returning back to Munich and the birth of his first child. Continue reading
Cape Town Sightseeing Part 1
OK. I know I will not get up-to-date prior to starting out again tomorrow, but am trying! These are from our Hop On Hop Off bus ride and a few from downtown. We managed to miss any winery tours due to time. Continue reading
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All
Happy Holidays to all and best wishes for an amazing 2016!!!
Cape Town Highlights
Going to try a new method today that Doug has taught me. Everyone seems to really enjoy the pictures so I will try to give you some fun checking them out. If you mouse over the picture you can read the caption (you might have to click on the first one) or you can click and bring up the picture and then view it like a slide show. Continue reading
Cape Town Local Entertainment
I was truly amazed at the marina we were in with the mall (a really big one) and the entertainment going on all the time and everywhere you wandered. I was especially enthralled with the marimba groups and how they were made and if the music was written in only one key since they had a different keyboard than ours. Continue reading
Cape Town South Africa Part 1
This is a place I am going to return to. Watch out March 2017! Amazing though with work on the boat I did not get to do nearly any sightseeing. We were 5th to arrive and that was exciting! It was several days prior to the last boat arriving.
First though have to share special Mother duty partner from Leg 2.
The Youngest and the Oldest…Alex and Linda Continue reading
Journey of a Lifetime 