Category Adventure

I’ve recently learned from a dear friend who has been doing a deep-dive into the concepts of awe and wonder that awe can be defined as “the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current…

After we covered thousands of nautical miles in March and April, I got an email yesterday from No Foreign Land that told me we went a whopping 170 miles in May (NFL for us is not related to the sportsball…

Hello from Raroia Atoll in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia! We’ve been here, anchored in the exact same spot, for two weeks now, after a 3.5 day passage from the Marquesas. We have been really soaking in the slower…

We haven’t moved from our anchoring spot from two and a half weeks ago when we first arrived and were tired and delirious from our crossing. We’ve somehow managed to do a lot and nothing at all in the time…

We made it! We actually made it to Nuku Hiva Thursday night by sunset, a passage of 23 days — and in the interim we have been so shell-shocked and not being able to process all that we have held…

Each morning the past few mornings, I’ve been making myself chai tea using spices from my dear friend Suprita who gave me her family’s spice grinder’s chai mix. This small reminder of loved ones that we have each day, whether…

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…

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…

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…