This whole RV thing is hilarious. To be honest, I’ve had a little bit of a difficult time embracing the RV lifestyle. There is something not very graceful about pulling into an RV park that stands in stark contrast to dropping the hook in a secluded anchorage. But hey, we are getting used to the …
Our time between the secluded bay of San Juanico and the little mining town of Santa Rosalia was just as it should be. No unpleasant surprises, perfect temperatures, lots of animal sightings and good times with good friends. When last I shared an update, Banyan was sitting high in the water, light from lack of …
The girls had a little break from the time they left school in Canada until we got to Guaymas. We were just having too much fun traveling to do much schooling. They had their “summer” break in February and March. They did lots of fun (and educational) things during that time. In Hawaii, we …
Since our last post, we have continued our trek northward. From Isla Carmen, we stopped off briefly outside of Loreto for a provisioning run, then headed up to Isla Coronados. The anchorage is huge, aqua blue with several white sand beaches. It is the picture of paradise. When we pulled in there, we knew we …
Oh, the Sea of Cortez! We haven’t spent tons of time in the Sea of Cortez. In 2015 we only made it up to San Evaristo, a small bay about 1/4 of the way up the sea on the Baja peninsula. It was just after Thanksgiving, it was BLOWING a “screaming blue norther” and really …
Well, as we expected, things did not go as expected. We were supposed to have been put in the water on April 1st, but as we ran around the decks, preparing the boat, we listened with falling hearts to the engine of the travel lift not turning over… It turns out, the starter motor died …
The Vawters are heading back to the water at long last. I know some of you thought (and maybe some even prayed) that we were going to become land lubbers again, but it’s back to the boat life for us! I dropped off writing posts near the end of June last year. We weren’t adventuring …
Okay, so I am not alone in feeling that homeschooling, was by far and away the hardest and possibly the worst part of cruising. Recently, at a meet-up over July 4th on Bainbridge Island I did a little informal survey. We got together with SV Agamere at their home. SV Wild Rumpus was there in …
It has been almost three months since we have been in Canada. After living here on hard ground we ask ourselves… how is it going? It has been quite the transition. And most transitions are not without adversity. The most challenging thing, apart from outfitting a completely empty house, starting completely new jobs, girls starting mid-school …
“Mommy, I want some headbands” – Isa. I replied with love “Yea? Why?” “Because the bathroom is so empty and it makes me not feel at home, there’s no stuff in it” – Isa. It’s so true. We have this overwhelming urge to fill our space don’t we? Not only our space, but other peoples …