Author: Mel

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    Offshore to Lagos

    The Burnetts left the Azores yesterday at 11 am Azores time. This trip should only be about 5 days, so hopefully we won’t see any surprise fronts. We better not. No offense, Azores, but Mel is tired of being cold. She only brought four long-sleeved shirts and four pairs of pants. So she is overjoyed…

  • The Nerds Abroad

    So the Azores are the most interesting islands Mel has never heard of.  Geography was not her best subject.  Of course, she is not alone.  Greg and Mel have been reading Mark Twain’s travel book, The Innocents Abroad, which describes his journey here aboard a steamship in the 1860’s.  He says then: “I think the…

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