One of the delightful differences between cruising now and 20 years ago is all the advances in communications that are now possible.

Our preferred eddress for short messages and timely responses

Usually, the best way to contact us is by email, of which we have 2 types.  The recommended way if the text is small (no attachments) is to send it to our Radio Email account at left.  We check that almost every night so we can get back to you quickly.

However, this email comes to us over the SSB radio - extremely slowly (usually 1-2 minutes/page).  Therefore we ask you to send email in plain-text only.

Hotmail and Yahoo users, please remember to check the plain-text button when composing your emails.  Otherwise you will be sending "HTML mail" -- the winlink servers will strip out all of the HTML tags to reduce email size, and the resulting text will arrive badly mangled.  Also, please ask us before sending any attachments and do NOT include our message when replying.  Yes, several limitations, but this is still the best way to contact us and we welcome your emails.

Eddress to use for larger or less time-critical content

For larger content, please use the email address shown at right.  Please note that checking this eddress means packing up a computer in a waterproof container, schlepping it ashore in the dinghy, and taking a taxi to a cyber-cafe that will let us plug into their network.  We check these eddresses as often as practicable, but sometimes there can be a delay of a few weeks (or even months).  There are few cyber-cafes in some of the out-of-the-way places we prefer to visit.

Unfortunately, spammers love to send scanners out to sniff websites for email addresses, and we hate spam.  So we've written our email addresses into graphics that humans can read, but automatic scanners can't.  It's sad that we have to go to such lengths, but such is the Internet these days.

In 2004 Iridium decided to change their billing options, drastically increasing their rates, so we've cancelled our satellite phone for the time being.  We still have the phone so if we find a more reasonable sat-phone option, we'll post the info here.  Also, now that we've left Australia, the phone we had there no longer works.  We usually get it reactivated (replacing the SIM chip, which gives us a new number) in each country we visit, so if you want to talk, please contact us via email and we'll send you our current number.

Finally, Jon's father Colin has graciously offered to handle our snail-mail for us.  He opens it and if he deems it important, he sends it to the next group coming to visit us.  His address is:
    100 Hillview Avenue, Los Altos, CA, 94022.

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