We left San Francisco on February 10, 2010 with a plan to head south to Mexico and then make the innocently named "puddle jump" to the South Pacific (!!) this spring. From there, who knows?!?!?!? Maybe Fiji? Australia? New Zealand? For now, we're just thrilled to finally be out at sea! 
Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! We had a great turkey day the Aussie way, throwin’ some brats on the barbie with the only other US boat we knew in the area. It was such an enjoyable time. I felt really happy that we could still celebrate the holiday with a nice day with friends and throwing the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Random Thoughts'
Let’s say GRACE – over and over and over
November 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Cheers!!, Fellow Cruisers, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, Shore Excursions, Somebody likes us, The End
Tags: Brisbane·Holidays·thankful·thanksgiving
random things I was thinking about while sitting in the quarterberth listening to it rain until I realized that the lazarette was open and I had to run out in my pj’s to close it and got totally soaked
November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, The End
* starting a new blog about our “normal” life * celebrating Hanukkah (even though I’m not Jewish) * how I should never eat fish & chips again (even though they are so so so so so good, they are so so so so bad for my waistline!) * how excited I am about my new, […]
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Mixed Emotions (written Nov.9, en route to Australia)
November 11th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Introspection, Life Lessons, Life on the Boat, Our Route, Passages, Random Thoughts, The End
When we started this passage, I never thought I would spend almost its entirety curled up in the recesses of the quarterberth or laying on the settee, trying to keep my stomach happy and contained. It’s strange to me that I’ve sailed almost halfway around the world and yet get the worst seasickness on our […]
Weather waffling and McDonald’s in Noumea
November 1st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fellow Cruisers, Life on the Boat, New Caledonia, On Safety, Passages, Random Thoughts, shoe-cruising
Hello!! I don’t know if I ever updated where we currently are, but we are at the Port Moselle marina in Noumea, New Caledonia. New Cal is an island country that is about 800 miles east of Australia. I was very excited because our guidebook hailed Noumea as “the Paris of the Pacific.” hahahahahaha I […]
A Seaworthy Vessel (written 10/21 en route to New Caledonia)
October 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Fellow Cruisers, First Mates, Life on the Boat, On Fear, On Safety, Our Route, Passages, Random Thoughts, This Could Have Been Us, Vanuatu
Our initial plan was to leave Fiji on Saturday Oct. 9. We didn’t feel too concerned about weather since we hadn’t heard rumors of anything nasty coming up, but – as usual – it’s always a good idea to check. The weather for the near future – 2 days out – looked perfect, but the […]
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News from Fiji
October 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Fiji, Random Thoughts
Ok, so back to Fiji for a moment… While we were hanging out at the cafe in Port Denerau, I entertained myself by reading through the two local newspapers the cafe had on display. Some of the news items struck me as quite interesting, so I thought I’d share a few of the (paraphrased) headliners […]
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Life on the dock
October 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Fiji, Introspection, Life on the Boat, Our Route, Random Thoughts, shoe-cruising, Words to Cling to
After the last few weeks of sailing all around, it is kind of nice to be tucked into the marina berths here at Port Denerau. Some of our other cruising friends scoff at the high prices of the restaurants here and another referred to this center of tourist madness as “Disneyland,” but I happen to […]
Tags: Denerau Marina·Nadi
Fun times with the Fridge
August 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Boat Work, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts
Before I show you pictures of the beautiful, bizarre Beveridge Reef and this crazy island country of Tonga, and before I depress you with serious posts about the soul-searching I’ve been doing, I thought that I would share with you the less glamorous side of our life….. We are one of the lucky boats that […]
Tags: Mess of the Week·provisioning
Re-Kindle-ing our library
August 9th, 2010 · 7 Comments · About Money, Cruising Must-Haves, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, What I'm Reading
Matt and I are what you might call “voracious” readers. We each can devour a decent size book in a day without interruptions. 400 pages? No big deal. Granted, I’m talking about the kinds of books we’ve been reading lately, the kind that you can read in a day because they take little to no […]
Cruising Must-Have: Good snorkeling gear!!!
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Cruising Must-Haves, French Polynesia, Life Lessons, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, Society Islands
Right before Matt and I left SF, our cross-the-dock neighbor generously gave us fishing tackle and scuba gear and three sets of masks/snorkels/fins. We felt like it was Christmas!!! He just kept bringing more and more stuff over for us. We were excited and thrilled to have such gifts literally falling into our lap. Because […]
Tags: Moorea·snorkeling