Our website was formerly known as Callipygia's Home Page, a reflection of its creation at the beginning of our cruising life aboard sweet Callipygia. For obvious reasons we changed the title when we sold our boat and took up land cruising. Taking a line from T.S. Eliot's poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, we have named it The Trouser Rollers.
We initially developed this website to keep family and friends informed about our travels and experiences, but (as you'll see if you spend much time here) it quickly turned into our filing cabinet. You can find here much of what we learned as live-aboard sailors, maps and logs of our travels, a photo album and many slide shows, campground ratings, stuff for kids, reading lists, essays, opinions, lessons learned, action alerts, jokes, practices, many lists, links, recipes, quotes, and more. A list of everything on our website can be found on the site map.
We began our sixties as full-time working stiffs. We cleared the hump of life and saw retirement age approaching; with it, the grave came inching into view. Time was flying. In 2000 we screwed up our courage, covered our eyes, and leapt into the cruising life. We disposed of most of our belongings and bought Callipygia, a Tayana 37' cutter-rigged sailboat. During the next four years, after spending some months learning the boat and doing upgrades, we moved aboard and cruised to eighteen Caribbean and West Atlantic countries - travelling over 7,500 nautical miles. But then, as we neared the end of our sixties, we began to feel our years and miss our families. So in the summer of 2004 we "swallowed the hook" and took up land cruising in a 24' RV named Clementine. We have come to love roaming in the natural environment and find that we are happiest living in a small space unencumbered by a lot of stuff.
As we cruise the seas and land together we find time to think about what is happening worldwide. Our awareness of different cultures has grown. It is becoming ever clearer that the US' and humanity's current paths are unsustainable. In our final years we want deeply to contribute to the more benign evolution of our species, and to join hands with all who care about the future of our planet and its inhabitants. We're doing so through this website and the website for our Global Change Seminar .
There's more information about each of us in our one-page thumbnail sketches of our lives and careers:
