ocean-pilgrim

Category: Musings

  • A potted history of our travels…or how to forget where the first month went.

    A potted history of our travels…or how to forget where the first month went.

    Last year we rented a van in cairns and spent the month of August getting away from the winter in Tasmania and travelling around the Cairns region.  I could tell you everywhere we went and what we did during that time without checking the photos I took!  Fast forward to this year and picking up…

  • So How Do You Choose a Van?

    So How Do You Choose a Van?

    This was a question we asked ourselves a lot as it became clear that this year was going to be all about van life. The main task here is to figure out what is available (not much) and what are our main requirements in a van.  Then match both against covid price increases. Pretty quickly…

  • On Sharing the Stories

    On Sharing the Stories

    Well a lot of water has flowed under the hull of Intention since my last update. The horror and relief of the rat story gave way to a few months of the most glorious of sailing as the Med emptied out of seasonal cruisers and charter boats and the days grew shorter but stayed warm…