Archive | July, 2014

Starting off our Summer

Here is just a wide array of images captured over the past month or two.  We have had quite a lot going on since we’ve launched Splendid Isolation into the Gulf.  Claire and Colleen enjoying beverages down in Surfside, TX our newest crewmember! Comida China pronounced: coh-mee-duh  chee-nuh (Spanish for Chinese Food) surfside, tx marc […]

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Trip to 44Farms

David and I have been working on the menu for Eculent.  We plan to get all of our beef from 44Farms a few hours away in Cameron, TX.  They only breed the best of the best Black Angus.   We drove out and took a tour of their cattle ranch.  We were impressed to say […]

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Renovating the restaurant

So we closed the restaurant doors the first week of May.  Since then David (the owner), Camillo (the craftsman), and myself have been tearing apart the dining room.  Renovating the front pass, installing electrical outlets, building booths, hanging light fixtures, installing custom track lighting, installing flatscreen “framed photos”, covering the wall in greenery, installing scent […]

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Mother comes to visit

Don’t forget all words in blue are links.  Click them for additional information on a subject, further explanation, or a glimpse back into our ship’s log. June, 2014 My mother came to visit Claire and myself here in Texas.  She can get quite adventurous when it comes to her yearly visit.  Her last visit to […]

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Solar Vent

April 21, 2014 Well we’ve been quite busy here in Texas.  Definitely a big adjustment.  I’ve got a few posts backed up that i am about to load all in a row.  i thought i would start out with a basic one, what this website was created for in the first place.  An online ship’s […]

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