Sleeping with a Fish
Just the other day in my blog I talked about the dilemma of sleeping with the hatch of my room open to help cool me off in the unbearably hot…
Halfway There Celebration Dinner – April 30, 2013
Here is our Halfway there celebration Spaghetti dinner! 13 days down a bunch more to go! Oh the movies and photos we have to share! Miss you all! Click here…
Scary Dreams and Flying Fish
After a few days of very calm balmy air our weather changed. We knew it would and we needed it to. We were starting to go a little stir crazy…
Meeting Dear Friends from the Past
As we traveled down the coast I looked to San Diego as a final destination to prepare any last minute items or and to complete tasks off our to do list. I…
Stories of Dark Caves and Cannibal Pits
Twenty five years ago my dad took his family on an adventure that would define the rest of our lives. I was only fifteen when we said good bye to…
Final Preparations and our First Coastal Sail
As we were set to leave on this Thursday our Wed. was super busy. All our projects lately meant that I needed to clean the boat thoroughly before we could…
Boat Preparations – Can we cut anything out?
After I settled Zakary down for his morning nap Norm and I fell into our pattern of reviewing our endless list of daily essentials. [embedplusvideo height="552" width="700" standard="http://www.youtube.com/v/B_uotMw5nfE?fs=1" vars="ytid=B_uotMw5nfE&width=700&height=552&start=&stop=&rs=w&hd=0&autoplay=0&react=1&chapters=¬es=" id="ep5084"…
About Our Family of 10
You may notice that our blog photos of what we are up to currently include only 8 people in them but we consider our family to be a family of…
Knocking on the escape hatch
Sometimes it is the little things woven into the fabric of my day that create everlasting images. Today it was my sun splashed children scrambling on and off the dock…
Family Adventuring – Almost Ready
Some think our family is a crazy bunch and after 18 years, I am beginning to question my own sanity with our latest adventure. Traveling the world with my wife…