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Have you reached escape velocity.........but don't know to where or how? Try the islands of the trade winds — any islands, really, and any winds.

After ten years in aerospace IT, I peddled my systems engineering skills overseas. Now I've had four decades' experience living, working, writing and speaking in countries of Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. Along the way I studied 7 languages, and have used 4 well enough to make a living on local economies. I lived aboard my sailboats and cruised between jobs in the Baltic, the North Sea, English Channel, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. By 1979 I had settled into cruising the myriad islands between Florida and South America. If you want to escape, I can tell you how.

The younger, freer America where I grew up haunts my visits home. Many long term expatriates, even those living in truly poor countries, find it hard to return home and stay. They can no longer cope as a cog in a big machine. They got used to living freely, without every step insured or hobbled by cat's cradles of regulations and government programs. Living without ever-present signs of "NO smoking", "NO fishinig, swimming, loitering, littering, entry, passing, parking in the park ... NO!". On visits home. I found myself longing to escape to the America of my youth, and I always did the next best thing — I sailed away — I escaped.

MARGARITA CAT JUST OUT AND NOW AVAILABLE HERE This book stitches up short stories from forty years of logs and letters written on my sailboats from four continents — personal stories of people who went walkabout on their boats, people who conspired to violate society's civil right to defraud them, and who often succeeded. New lights or last embers, they form a confederacy of heroes whom the Greeks would love. Margarita Cats do for certain.