Hello from 2 degrees N latitude—we are so close to the equator. We finally got calming seas yesterday morning and as the day went on it became clear how far our nerves had been shot from five days straight of being beaten up by the big seas. Under suggestion from our dear friend and sailing…

The miles continue and the latitude drops. And it was a busy day yesterday from a sea life perspective. What we believe to be a masked booby (I’ll post a real photo at some point once I figure out how to get it from the real camera to my computer) came and visited us and…

Sunrise is the best time of day because it’s the farthest away from the next night watch Today on watch I listened to the episode of Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ podcast Wiser Than Me where she speaks with food writer Ruth Reichl. Ruth’s sage advice is to say yes to the things that frighten you and to…

What a difference a day and a few knots more of wind makes. We caught up to the wind, or the wind caught up to us, whichever way, and we are sailing again! It feels and sounds incredible. Instead of listening to sloshing water and banging sails because we’re going so slow, now we’re surfing…

We made it to the Tropic of Cancer! 23.5 degrees N at 9am this morning Pacific time so we split a beer and had some chips because in the end, what is time anyhow? It was a sunupper rather than a sundowner! Now midday we are finally both wearing t-shirts and we’re certain shorts will…

Some new things have happened over the last couple of days — first and possibly most exciting being that yesterday morning we had three flying squid on our deck and then today we had our first flying fish on deck (RIP sweet ocean creatures). Second, we started our this passage at 33N degrees latitude and…