Blogging has become a real outlet for me. I still so enjoy it after all these years. If I have things going on that I don't share, and let's face it, not everything should be shared with the world, especially when you are running a business, I always feel a bit out of kilter cuz I have not written about it. Ultimate narcissism isn't it?
You would think that the act of writing it down whether anyone reads it or not would be enough. But, somehow not..I have entries I would love to share with just my girlfriends, so I have thought about password protecting, or putting up another blog (god forbid!) but it really seems like too much work.
So, it goes here. At least I am a real person. I read quite a few blogs, and some of these women are MUCH braver then I am with sharing information. I read a whole cross section of blogs and info, although I am not much for commenting on them, I feel like I know some of these women. And it does seem to be mostly women I follow, not intentionally, I guess they blog more!
Some of the blogs I read, you would wonder what kind of off beat things I am into...but they all seem to fit together. It is like reading stories and getting gossip all the time.
So, what blogs do I follow and why? Well, a sample of them that I read are...
Some are work related, to keep me up to date what is going on in the chartering world. Although, if it is purely a blog that "sells things" and does not give me an insight into the people behind it it quickly gets boring...
I follow
Kim Kavin of Charter Wave, to see what she has up for info on happenings and boats. She also has a
personal blog I follow here which is lately detailing her triathalons (see I cannot even spell the word, never mind DO IT) triumphs and struggles. I get out of breath just reading it!
I follow
Sheila at Paradise Connections. She blogs about not only booking yacht charters, but also the trials and tribulations of cruising the Caribbean in their yacht which was dismasted last fall in a storm and they have spent all winter in St. Croix building a new mast. Sheila has become a good friend over the years, and we enjoy being snarky together at times!
In a rare occurrence, a male on my blogging list, her husband also blogs, about boaty "things", and he always seems to have new projects on the go in his head and in real. Bob is not always politically correct, which I really enjoy.
Jean Beswick, on Jeannius started off by blogging when they were doing charters here in the Caribbean and then had a great opportunity to go on the around the world arc race, so off they went. They are in the middle of Tonga somewhere in the back of beyond, and her writing style has some real english deadpan humor in it which I love. When she blogs about wanting to run away screaming from the boat to civilization (well, I am paraphrasing) all I can do is nod my head and agree.....
Adventure Antigua, blogs about life on the water in that area. They also sometimes are politically incorrect which I like! They do echo tours and day tours.
BVI Bound, has not posted much in the last couple of months, but of course, I like to keep up with any blogs that are happening in the BVI. I am still waiting for more people to blog from here!
Storm Carib has daily updated posts from weather watchers all over the Caribbean, and I like to keep an eye on the weather everywhere in the Caribbean it appears!
Dear Miss Mermaid was perhaps the original blogger in the BVI. She lived her for many years, making her living as an accountant and a chef, (and writing books) She always seems to keep her identity a secret, although us on island know her name. She has recently bought a motorhome and is traveling around the states, trying to make a living and take care of some health issues she left the islands for. Her blogging was sporadic for quite awhile, but has now picked up again. She is humorous, and i chuckle reading it. She has a loyal following. Have to giggle at anyone now driving around the states in a RV...I wonder if she will have people like we did come up to us at a mall in Atlanta and pound on the RV going "I read your blog!"
I read the blogs from the old time
SCUBA divers at Undercurrent I love the tales of the old days and the idiocracy that is involved in Dive training nowadays.
Harts at Sea. They live on a boat. Not sure how I started following this one...One of my newer follows...Blog always go up and down, one you loved reading last month no longer blogs or whatever...
Catittude does not blog much, a power cat that was in TMM for a few years, they have now wrapped up their businesses stateside and are moving about this week permanently down here on the boat, so I imagine it will pick up. They will be doing some charters...
Our BVI Adventure started this winter, by a couple who recently moved to Tortola, he as the Director of International Sales or Marketing or some such at Pussers. Enjoy her writing and always love other BVI bloggers!
Rock2Rock. A family cruising, currently in Polynesia.
Sandy Montgomery on Sail or Not Think I started reading this when I was following her misadventures about picking up sailing jobs off the internet trying desperately to find a place for herself on a boat in the islands. Hate to laugh at others misfortune, but it was seriously funny. Still enjoy reading about her travels and tribulations, the good and bad, from almost being homeless, to being in Palm Springs. She is based out in Vancouver, where near we live when we are up in Canada, so that is always fun to read too.
Not many charter crews blog, and if they do, it is very sporadically.
Tom and Becca are on Hypnautic and put up occasional entries.
This couple, Sasha and Tara, USED to be on Hypnautic, then on Diadem and now looking again!
Then there is the
St Thomas Blog, as we have to know what is going on on that side of the Virgins!
And another blog on living over on the US Side from Captain Jay..Always pretty water pictures!
If anyone remembers the charter yacht Shellette, it is on a round the world journey too...(See if I read all these others ones I don't have to do it myself! And never would unless I can get fast internet at all times and the generator never breaks!)
Let see,
we also have a woman blogger from Australia I follow on Wanderlust. Not sure how I got there either!
So called "Mommy Bloggers" there are lots. Lots of people blog about their children, which I don't find particularly interesting. Sue me. However, some of them blog about their trials in regards to children and that I like. Also the up and downs of trying to survive as a family in this economy are interesting.
Uppercase Women. Don't always agree with her, but I appreciate women who are larger and also blogging about it!
I somehow got connected onto a few alternative blogs, raising children, living off the land and such. Interestingly some of these girls came out of some fairly heavy body modification blogs before getting to the raising children route. I enjoy reading the alternate views on life. No damned way am I interested in doing any of this parenting where they suck on your breast forever and you co sleep etc etc.
This girl, glorious and free, lives outside Kincardine in Ontario where I lived for many years and I don't know how she has the energy to do everything she does AND do it while getting new tattoos all over the place.
Type Alice is a girl that I have been following for a few years. Her husband keeps a
fishing blog and website and was born on Tortola. I started following her when she was blogging while living on Tortola and have kept up through the moves back to chilly canada and the natural parenting etc etc.
Heather blogs on the Spohrs are Multiplying Heather had a toddler die a year or so ago, and has continued to blog through the birth of her new daughter Annabel.
Equal people think that
Sandy Benson is nuts or a great person. She has 15 children, money to raise them, most of them adopted, many with special needs, and this is one women who shares more intimate details that most of us would cringe at sharing. But I have enjoyed reading her story over the years. How much energy can one person have? She has taken numerous hits in the blogging world for "oversharing" but I think people can write about whatever they want, if you don't like it, don't read it.
We're all friends here seems to be a lower income girl who had a very troubled life growing up and is now in a three way relationship and there is children involved. I was taken aback when I first started reading it, very much, but this girl can WRITE! She lives in low income housing in Southern California, and in some ways it is another one of those where you feel like you are watching a train wreck but can't look away. I love her writing style, and it is an interesting look inside the dynamics of three person relationships. Believe me, if there was Polygamists who blogged too I would probably read those as well!
And, last but not least, i
s a blog by our friend and former guest, Tom Richey who is taking his retirement in So Ca and attending Culinary Arts School! He calls himself "Chef wanna B"
So, a real hodge podge of blogs, and no, I don't go to those sites every day, when there are new entries they show up in my RSS reader. There is many more, but this turned out to be a much longer entry then it was going to be, and it went in a totally different direction then it was going to as well...I was going to write about some health issues I now have, some changes I have to make etc etc. You know, the original commiserating with the girlfriends post I started doing?
That will have to wait until later.
To each of the blog writers above, I may not comment on your blogs, but I enjoy reading each and every one of them so thank you!
