The Schady-Muller Sailing and Travel Blog
Retirement Is Fun!
“Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do, than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
Latest News From Esprit
Sydney Nov – Dec 2025
Since our last post at the end of October, I have had a relaxed time in the run-up to Christmas. In a large measure, this was due to me going through a physiotherapy rehabilitation period for my damaged left Achilles tendon. Annie, on the other hand, threw herself...
New Zealand.
Warning! This post contains a lot of Schady and Muller family photos, which you may find boring, or may have puzzling names. The 13 hour flight from San Francisco to New Zealand crossed the International Date Line, resulting in a lost day on our calendar, before we...
New Orleans.
Flashback! I found my video of the Niagara Falls, not included in our post from Toronto. Here it is - quite spectacular. So, we landed at Louis...
Toronto, Canada.
After taking a train and a Skytrain to Newark Airport on the 29th September, we had a short flight from New York to Toronto. A shuttle bus to Union station, then a subway train to Rosedale station and an Uber to 122 Roxborough Drive brought us to the house of Martin...
New York.
Warning! This is a long post - a lot to show you! On our flight from Portland to New York, I had an informative New Yorker, Peter Miller, sitting next to me. He lives in Manhattan and offered to get us on the right trains to get to our hotel. We arrived at Newark...
Portland, Oregon.
The daunting highways leading into Portland looked like plates of spaghetti on Google maps. So, we pulled off about 10km from the city centre for breakfast, to fill up with petrol and study the route to Avis, in case Google malfunctioned. All went well however and...