There is A LOT of talk these days about how to get through isolation. Self-care has been in the lexicon for a while, but its use has been skyrocketing. People are looking for all sorts of ways to get through this with mental health and relationships intact. Social media and publications abound with all kinds …
We have arrived in paradise. Just plop an image of Banyan into that classic scene of paradise in your mind; aqua blue water, white sandy beach, thin strip of low lying land full of palm trees, fat coconut crabs running around and water full of exotic fish. We are there. Our four day passage from …
We spent 4 months on Banyan in the spring of last year and put her to bed while we RV’d all over the US and Canada. We had an awesome time and it was mainly necessary because of work… and I really wanted to spend the holidays with family. Now, I can not begin to …
Our plan when we left our boat in Mexico was to slowly meander north, hitting as many National Parks as we could. We made it to a few in the beginning, but work and play pulled us in other directions until early September. With a budding Paleontologist on board, the promise of fossils pulled us …
So, back in May, on a hard-to-get-to beach in Mexico, we met the coolest couple, the Duvals. They have lived in their off roading van (a very tricked out Sportsmobile) with their two small children for the last three years. I spied them on the beach one morning. I whipped out the binoculars, saw kids …
The video is fast and fuirous, just like our September. Enjoy! This is the first time I’ve posted video in a while, let me know if you are able to view this easily.
Telling people that we live in an RV can sometimes leave the wrong impression. As we are on land now, land folks almost inevitably want to know where we live. Usually, the question is followed by a long pause during which we all look at each other with curious smiles on our faces. But that …
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 …
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 …