Mermaids and Tales » How to see the Caribbean on $1000 a Day http://www.mermaidsandtales.com Boats, Beaches, Drinks, Cars, Planes, and Mermaids Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:37:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 $1k A Day Part 5: “A failure to communicate” http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-5-a-failure-to-communicate/ http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-5-a-failure-to-communicate/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:56:05 +0000 sorrydog http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/?p=41
So, all who have traveled through the Carribean have heard about how cheap fuel is in Venesula and countries in the Banana Republic right? We are sitting on the boat in Puerta Plata Harbor, Dominican Republic, having just won $5,900 in folding money from Joanie’s gamblink talents at the local casino.  We had money for Diesel [...]]]> http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-5-a-failure-to-communicate/feed/ 0 $1k A Day Part 4: Never say “or bust” http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-4-never-say-or-bust/ http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-4-never-say-or-bust/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:52:47 +0000 sorrydog http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/?p=39
The next stop on our “Don’t Stop the Carnival” cruise (which is a great book by Herman Wouk) is Samana in the Domican Republic.  OUr reliable Sat.Nav. unit tells us its a 36 hour cruise across the ocean.  The GPS is the greatest invention for adventurous ocean crossing boaters.  We ended up finding the Dominican [...]]]> http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-4-never-say-or-bust/feed/ 0 $1k A Day Part 3: Bullets in the Headboard http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-3-bullets-in-the-headboard/ http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-3-bullets-in-the-headboard/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 19:41:02 +0000 sorrydog http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/?p=34
Now, you must be wondering about our boats, the Hiatus and the Lehac, still anchored out in a bend in the harbor. We left the local party at about 9 or 10. We didn’t want to overstay our welcome.  Unbelievably, we threaded our way back via the dinghy, without a local guide. Dumb luck? Most certainly. [...]]]> http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-3-bullets-in-the-headboard/feed/ 0 $1k A Day Part 2: “Oh the funnel we’ll have…” http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-2/ http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-2/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:25:21 +0000 sorrydog http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/?p=17
As all good sailors do, we had to go into Georgetown to kiss all the girls goodbye the night before we left for St. Croix.  Now it doesn’t take much to entertain an Island Wanderer so we took our funnel to town in hopes of finding new members for the FUNNEL ISLAND CLUB. Yellow Bird, a [...]]]> http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/1k-a-day-part-2/feed/ 0 How to see the Caribbean on $1000 a Day http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/how-to-see-the-caribbean-on-1000-a-day/ http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/how-to-see-the-caribbean-on-1000-a-day/#comments Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:12:04 +0000 sorrydog http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/?p=8
Little did I know that cold, drizzly day in early January of 1985, in Jacksonville, Florida, that when I answered my office phone, I had just quit my J.O.B. 
The voice on the phone tugged at my heartstrings. It was my old friend, Island Eddie. “Go to the airport,” he said, “get on a plane, and [...]]]> http://www.mermaidsandtales.com/index.php/2008/11/how-to-see-the-caribbean-on-1000-a-day/feed/ 0