Slow Life Chronicles

Rainsford Island was the first reachable-only-by-private-boat island that we have explored, two summers ago, and this is my report which I wrote down back then but never published before.

In my Peddocks Island report I started recounting my slow-moving project to explore all the islands in Boston Harbor. There is also another, even slower-moving project: to explore the Boston area and Massachusetts lighthouses. Ideally, this exploration should happen by sailboat, but in real life, we reached some of them by bike or on foot.

Well, not quite a manifesto. Not really a manifesto. But still.

Out of all world countries, the Land Of Beautiful Sunsets is by far my favorite. The tickets are cheap, and no paperwork is required at the border, no vaccinations, not even a passport. But despite all that, it remains not very popular with tourists, so there is no danger of being overcrowded.

For a few years after I learned how to sail, I regarded sailing as a process to enjoy. When I went sailing, I, well, raised my sails and went sailing. That was the entire point now, wasn’t it?