Life is good. Life is very, very good. Not only do we have our world bursting at the seams on the homestead, I’ve started a new adventure back on the salt this summer. I’ve gotten my ASA sailing instructor credentials and have set a...
Perhaps the excitement of a new boat went to my head just a bit as I began making plans for a journey to the far reaches of the earth in our lovely little Dowitcher. I apologize if anyone got their hopes up due to my zeal. Revisions to the journey will include a...
The high seas beckon once again. Cape Horn, the Southern Ocean, Good Hope, the Somali Coast and the Red Sea…all these once distant dreams are now a real possibility. We are whole again. Our souls fulfilled again. We have bought a boat! I dream of Intrepid...
The move from sailing through the Sea of Cortez in Baja, Mexico up to the snowy peaks of Alaska seemed, at first glance, like quite the extreme shift. Although this shift in 40 degrees of latitude certainly has transformed our views and our landscapes, our...
The seas were glassy calm, itself a rarity in these stormy climes of February, so we could see every last detail of the sea surface for miles. We saw a tiny shark laze around the boat, and then we saw a slightly bigger shark laze around the boat. Sea lions surfaced...
