New Video: St Thomas, BVI

This new video only took a lightening speed of 10 days to produce, hopefully I can move along at a faster clip now I am a media team of two… OK it’s not newsroom fast, but it’s not island time slow either.

I hope you enjoy…

I alluded to my new editor in the last post, imagining for her a bleak existence made marginally more tolerable by my sun-drenched videos and what I consider to be exceptional humor. My sister-in-law, who has an annoying relationship with reality, suggested I simply ask the editor about her actual life. So I did, and threw all caution - and sense - to the wind and even sent her my last blog, which, if you recall, featured her married off at 14 to a polygamous husband, freezing in a yurt, editing videos to support her seven sister-wives and what I recall was a goat. Fortunately, she found it hilarious. This is important, as I would prefer she not resign and leave me to my own devices again.

Her name is Nevena and she told me she lives in Serbia. Not in a yurt. In a nice home with a nice Husband and a toddler. Editing videos with a toddler feels like its own form of endurance sport, however, contrary to my gray and tragic narrative, she told me it’s Spring there and everything is beautiful. A little research revealed that Serbia has a perfectly decent quality of life. There are fabulous cafes, clean air and free healthcare. All the things I had dramatically stripped from her in my dramatic version.

The only real issue, from my completely self centered perspective, is that Serbia no longer has a coastline. After the Yugoslavia bust up in the 90s, the coastal bits wandered off and became countries like Croatia and Montenegro. Both of which we are planning to visit in summer 2027 on our “Unanchored Life Not Really Sure Where We’re Going Tour”. So there is a possibility we may meet in person one day - assuming she hasn’t fired me.

In real time, or what passes for it when your house moves, we are currently in St Martin in the French Caribbean. Crew members can click on the WHERE IS MOONFLEET NOW page to actually track us. In video production time, we are in St Thomas, about to slide into St John and then onward into the British Virgin Islands: There we spent over three months conducting what can only be described as highly unscientific research into beaches, bars, anchorages, hikes and a peppering of poor choices. I have carefully collected a truly impressive number of stories. Some involve adventure, and others involve minor boating blunders. A few involve both at once, which is really where we shine. These I will inflict upon you in due course.

Thank you for watching, and reading. For those of you who have kindly signed up as paying Crew Members and made the dubious decision to support this floating circus: You are, among other things, helping me pay Nevena, who lives a perfectly nice, goat-free life, although she does have a toddler, which, from my experience, is the more expensive option.

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