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 …
Date: Friday, May 4th 2018 Time: 21:32 UTC Location: 09° 48.4′ S 139° 01.9 W Anchor down, Atuona bay 24 hour distance traveled: 109 nm Distance to the Marquesas: 0 nm We have arrived! Now your inboxes can take a break from our incessant posts: It’s time for us to explore the islands. Last night …
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.
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 …
“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 …
Well we are ringing in the New Year on the mainland of Pacific Mexico. It’s hot, humid, lush and dreamy. Everything we were looking for when we left Baja California! After a nice brisk overnight sail from Los Muertos on the Baja Peninsula, we stopped in at Isla Isabella. This is an amazing island – …
How Does Food Work on a Boat? I’ve been meaning to write about food for a while. This post has been languishing in my “working posts” file under construction and ignored. This is much like my cooking… I work on it, have high hopes, but it is sadly neglected. I have flights of fancy and …