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! 
For those of you who know us, it will come as no surprise that Matt and I desperately needed to get up to the mountains (and snow!!) one last time before we became fully committed to boat life. Except for the anticipated brutal journey down the California coast to Mexico, we don’t anticipate seeing winter […]
Entries Tagged as 'First Mates'
Landlubbers
January 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · First Mates
Tags: happiness·landlubbers·mountains·winter
2010 – The Year of the Bins
January 4th, 2010 · 7 Comments · First Mates, Funny, Life on the Boat, Preparing for the trip, The beginning
It’s New Years Day and I’m standing in the doorway of our near empty studio apartment looking at Matt. I can feel Matt seething with annoyance as he precariously balances two overflowing cardboard boxes, a paper bag, a blanket, my backpack, and two sets of over-the-door hooks on our little hand cart. “We didn’t have […]
Tags: Bins·downsizing·getting rid of stuff·Marriage·Moving·San Francisco·Woman on a Boat
Weak Knees :(
December 22nd, 2009 · 5 Comments · About Money, Boat Work, First Mates, Oh Crap., Preparing for the trip, The beginning
Every once in a while someone will make a comment about how relaxing our lives must be now that we’re going into a period of not working and just “hanging out” on the boat. Yeah, wouldn’t THAT be nice. We’ve suspected for a while that there was a major structural repair needed on the boat, […]
Tags: accomplishments·setbacks
30 Day Notice
December 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · First Mates, Preparing for the trip, The beginning
Today I sent in our rent along with our 30-day notice that we’ll be moving out at the end of the month! We are no longer counting down months, we’re counting the DAYS!
We have a crew!
November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment · First Mates, Preparing for the trip, The beginning, The Crew
I haven’t gone into too many details about WHO will be going on the sailing trip with us other than me and Matt because, honestly, that question brings up so many complicated issues and we didn’t really know and we still sort of don’t know who the crew will be for the majority of the […]
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Sometimes we’re brilliant…
November 16th, 2009 · No Comments · First Mates, Funny, Life Lessons, Stupid Ideas
and sometimes we’re not. For a lawyer and a physicist, the decision to put pizza dough onto a manila folder and load it with toppings before attempting to slide it onto a 450 degree hot pizza stone was certainly not the brightest idea we’ve ever had. I’m even creating a “stupid ideas” category just for […]
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Easily amused
November 13th, 2009 · No Comments · About Money, First Mates, Funny
When you’re trying to save money by not going out, have cancelled your netflix, don’t have a TV and the only books on your shelf are about sailing, you need cheap entertainment…
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So much for new radar… :) (and why Matt loves me)
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · About Money, First Mates
It’s Monday night and I’m watching Matt gently slice a cucumber. His eyes are twinkling with delight and he’s giddy with excitement. “WOW! Look at this! This is AWESOME.” He holds up the shiny new $300 chef’s knife he purchased the day before at Sur La Table and runs his finger along the blade again. […]
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Downsizing
October 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · First Mates, Funny, Preparing for the trip, The beginning
After graduation from law school, where I lived in an awesome three bedroom condo with my roommate, I headed to California, living first in my friends’ apartment, then in an enormous (and empty) house in Sacramento. Because these situations were temporary, I got by with only that which I could fit in my suitcase. Since […]
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Goin’ to the Chapel…
September 25th, 2009 · No Comments · First Mates, Preparing for the trip, The beginning
Woo hoo!! It’s finally here… Posts will be intermittent (if at all) since tonight we start the big cross-country drive back east for the wedding. We’ll be gettin’ hitched, sayin’ goodbye to our awesome X-terra (just for now) and will be taking a huge leap towards our big sailing adventure. Leaving the car and a […]
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