From Seattle, we rented a car which became our home for the next 9 days. This was as much time had available to discover the west coast of USA. At first, we had very ambitious plans to visit several famous national parks and also the city of Portland, San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. …
As soon as it was clear that we won’t sail over the Atlantic, we both imagined how we travel across the USA. Jaanus was especially exited since it was the first time in the USA for him. Despite the USA west coast road trip exceeded our budget, we still decided to proceed. We started the …
Washington D.C is a beautiful city. Just like Boston its packed with history and culture. We spend there 4 days and explored some of the main sites in the city. For our great surprise all (or most of ) the museums and sights were free of charge as so was the zoo. We were lucky …
We landed in US on the 11th of November. The flight was long, but fortunately, we had a lot of space on the airplane, so we could feel us quite comfortable. Jaanus was looking at the movies and Kaija was trying to finish a book about a road trip in US that two Estonian guys …
Our couschurfing buddies recommended that if we want to go hiking then Santo Antoa, the neighbor island of Sao Vincent, is the best place where to do this. The island is often called hikers paradise. So we went there to discover whether it is worth its name and we discovered that it certainly was. On …
In our previous blog we described our adventure of Sailing from Canary’s to Cape Verde. The recovery from this trip took a long time. The first days in Mindelo we were exhausted and did not really do much to look around in the town. In addition, we had to take a couple of days to …
The ones who follow our journey via PolarSteps may have noticed that we are not hanging around the marina anymore. This is because we decided to leave the boat and not to do the Atlantic Ocean crossing with it. It came as a difficult decision because it was one of our goals during this journey. …
We were checking the weather forecast every day to find the best time to start sailing to Cape Verde. It seemed that no matter when we sail, on the first days we will have to use the engine because good winds seem to be about 100 nm offshore and it is calm around the islands. …
We arrived at the port of Estaca on the 18 of October. Starting from that day we have been waiting for the right winds to sail to Cape Verde. Unfortunately the winds had turned against us and the waiting last in total about one week. So we had plenty of time to get to know …
We started sailing towards El Hierro island on early morning of 18th of October. The day started magnificently. We woke up when Margus shouted that there are whales and if we want to see those we should come up quickly. This was the fastest we have ever gotten out of the bed. Exactly on the …