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! 
In the dark, the island was a foreboding dark mass on the horizon, a threatening black image on the radar screen. After being at sea for so long, seeing nothing for weeks, and falling into a pleasant state of not worrying about running into anything, it felt strangely scary to suddenly be within three miles […]
Entries Tagged as 'happiness'
Making Landfall (May 8, 2010)
May 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Famous Firsts, French Polynesia, Marquesas, Nuku Hiva, Pacific Crossing
Tags: accomplishments·happiness·Nuku Hiva·Pacific Crossing·Taiohae Bay·thankful·Woman on a Boat
Paradise
May 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Beautiful, French Polynesia, Life on the Boat, Marquesas, Nuku Hiva
I would write more, but right now there is a beautiful loaf of freshly made french bread calling my name, along with a huge chunk of butter, delicious jam and honey, multiple pamplemousse,* and some ridiculously fragrant limes just screaming to be sliced and diced into a margarita. Life in paradise is rough. More updates […]
WE DID IT!!! We are in the Marquesas!
May 9th, 2010 · 14 Comments · Famous Firsts, First Mates, Our Route, Pacific Crossing, Passages
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!! WE MADE IT!!!!!!! we are in the south pacific and holy smokes, i can’t believe we’re really here. After 25 days at sea. Lord have mercy, I am really really really really really glad to not be moving anymore! I’ve wondered for days now how to write this post. Honestly, I wish that I […]
Tags: accomplishments·Faith·happiness·Introspection·Marquesas·Marriage·Nuku Hiva·Pacific Crossing·South Pacific·thankful·Woman on a Boat
Perspective
April 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Words to Cling to
If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back immediately. Oy. A good reminder that we’ve got to keep it all in perspective.
And the Internet said, “Our people shall not thirst…”
April 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cheers!!, Debauchery, Pacific Crossing, Passages, Somebody likes us
A HUGE *HUGE* thank you to Karl P., Matt’s friend and former jefe, and Philip R., of the adventurous side of my family, for ensuring that we will not thirst on our way across the Pacific, or while we’re in French Polynesia, or probably for even months beyond that!!! We’ll be thinking of you and […]
Tags: groceries·happiness·liquored up·Pacific Crossing·provisioning
Finally, a taste of Paradise – Bahia Tenacatita, MX
April 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Beautiful, Mexico, Passages
Tenacatita is the first place we’ve been to, so far, where my first thought was NOT to get online and check email or facebook or post a blog. No, instead, my first thoughts were – WOW. THIS is what cruising is about… why didn’t we come here first?!?!!? Bahia Tenacatita is BEAUTIFUL. Compared to all […]
Tags: Bahia Tenacatita·happiness·Introspection·La Cruz·Woman on a Boat
Maybe this is a little TOO honest….. FULL DISCLOSURE: one month in
March 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Boat Work, Introspection, Life Lessons, Life on the Boat, Mexico, Oh Crap., Stupid Ideas, The beginning, This sucks
“What if I told you, Karen , that you couldn’t have anymore of anything… No more friends, no more money, no more anything, until you first got happy with what you have? Actually Karen , I’d never tell you that, because frankly, it’s not always true. But, if you’re not happy with what you’ve got, […]
Tags: happiness·Introspection·regrets?·sacrifice·who i am·Woman on a Boat
A little late, but a BIG thanks…
March 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cheers!!, Somebody likes us
To Shawn and Karen G. We don’t really know you, but we appreciate you and your generosity!! Shawn & Karen treated us to drinks while we were in San Diego, at a cool little jazz place they too have enjoyed near the cop docks called Humphreys. There, we got our first taste of Paradise: […]
And on the fourth day, she rested.
March 18th, 2010 · 3 Comments · First Mates, Funny, Mexico, Our Route
Today was the first day since we arrived in La Cruz that we had no plans, decided to do NO WORK on the boat, and had no reason to be anywhere other than where we were at the moment. And oh, it was BLISS. We left the boat around 11 and headed straight to the […]
Tags: happiness·La Cruz·relaxation
Landlubbers
January 8th, 2010 · 1 Comment · First Mates
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 […]
Tags: happiness·landlubbers·mountains·winter