Franciscan on Sister Water

    We have traveled so far about a month through France and have had a lot of adventures.  Internet has not always been available, so I have not been able to update news much, but we have tried to keep connected.  There have been so many challenges, joys, interesting people and things to see […]

    Before crossing over to France from Dover, I wanted to visit Dover Castle.  I had heard that it was one of the best preserved castles in England and one of the largest in size.  I didn’t realized how much it had been used for defense over the years and by so many different […]

It seems that we have taken a different turn in our adventures on Sister Water.  Rick and I had to leave England for a while because of visa restrictions, so we had a few options.  Either we would go and travel in Panama and Costa Rica, where it is warm, or we had an option […]

I know that we all look at the world differently, of course, with our own eyes.  So, some things are not always understandable.  I have thought about this and it seems to me that what is strange to us is only strange because we have never seen it before or cannot understand it’s meaning.   There […]

Many people wonder why Rick and I have gone on this adventure/trip with a sailboat in Europe.  “Why take the risk at your age? and are you crazy!”, are some of the comments I have heard.   Others are thrilled that we are taking it and wish that maybe they could do something like it some […]

While traveling through Iceland and parts of Netherlands, I have visited many RK churches (Roman Catholic), and others looking for Sunday Mass.   One would think that this would be an easy thing to do, but not so.  Apparently, Northern Holland does not have many priests to celebrate Mass.  There are Catholics, but few to serve […]

While visiting Reykjavik in Iceland and Frysland in the Netherlands, we have come across some interesting celebrations that communities have initiated.   This makes me wonder about the cultures and what are their values, which determines what is honored and celebrated.  Sister water is very much a part of both these countries. During the first […]

To get to Stavoren, where our boat was, we had to take two buses, one airplane, two trains, one ferry and then our boat dealer picked us up by car to travel the last half mile with our luggage.   We are now in Stavoren, Holland  (it is an old port and was inhabited as early […]

The power of nature is amazing and beautiful.  We can only observe and wonder at it’s workings.  We visited the rift between the North American Plate and European Plate in the Pingvillir National Park.   This is an awesome split of  nature.  This had been a traditional site for gatherings of the tribes of Iceland. One […]

We have arrived in Iceland where the summer sun always shines.   It is very volcanic in nature here.  Coming in from the airport one sees a lava filled terrain.  Reykjavik the  capitol is quite green, however, with trees, flowers and about 1700 people.  We enjoyed a great day walking around the town.  This is […]