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As you may have guessed, this is a website belonging to David and Judith. This is our personal site for family and friends to keep up with what is happening in our lives.

About Us

We live in Portage, MI, just adjacent to Kalamazoo. Our son, Barry, lives near Traverse City, Mi with his wife, Nichole, and our grandsons, Elliot and Cormac. Our daughter, Lindsay, lives a couple of miles away our two granddaughters, Alexis and Morgan. We are both retired from regular jobs which is just as well since neither of us has enough time to do the things we want to. I (David) teach photography at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts when I am in town and Judy is a weaver and is active in the Weavers' Guild of Kalamazoo.

We have a 2010 37' Nordic Tug, "Sir Tugley Blue," (STB) which was initially home-ported in Whitehall, MI . This is our "summer home" and we typically spend about three months cruising in the summer. Prior to the 37' we owned a 32' Nordic Tug, Sir Tugley Green." Our cruising has covered extensive exploration of the North Channel and Georgian Bay, Ontario with one extended cruise through the Trent Severn Canal to Lake Ontario and return, and, in 2016, our biggest adventure to date ... the Downeast Circle ...Lake Michigan, the North Channel., Georgian Bay, the Trent Severn Canal, down the St. Lawrence visiting Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia and Maine along the way where we left STB for the winter of June 2016/2017. Eventually we will complete the Circle which will take us down the Atlantic coast to New York, up the Hudson River, eventually back to Lake Ontario, and then home.

We spent the 2017 season cruising northern Maine and again left STB at Atlantic Boat in Brooklyn, ME (the World Capital of Wooden Boat Building). We will soon be leaving home to head east to pick up the boat and spend another season in Maine with our friends from Chicago, Dean and Charlotte on their 32 Nordic Tug, "Carrie Rose".

Travel has always been a big part of our lives since high school and, with retirement, extended trips have been possible. Our family is scattered - England, Spain, and the USA - so just visiting family can involve long trips. In betweeen traveling and our other activities, we seem to be continually working on our house and garden and trying to fit projects into a hectic schedule.