Category Adventure

The REO Speedwagon song Roll With the Changes has at various times in my life has been an anthem to listen to at loud volume while dancing and singing and of course air-guitaring. This song returns once again to be…

A huge thank you and big hugs to every person who messaged, posted, called, and texted to say hello and send good cheer to us. It really has been lifting our spirits! And I have realized that I’ve not been…

The Mexico administrative saga continues — I won’t bore you with details but suffice to say nothing has been going smoothly and there seem to be roadblocks at every turn. So we continue to be in San Pedro, Los Angeles,…

Many of the relatively few people who read this already know, but for the rest of you it’s time for a story of diplomacy, deceit, and decisions. Also forgive any factual errors here – I’m definitely not a Mexican maritime…

My friend Sam recently got me into dinosaurs. This is a woman who can geek out to some sci-fi, hike the Sierras and forage for edible foods like a bad-a$$, and is super into dinosaurs. As in, people give her…

Doing yoga with a sea lion who is also doing yoga is a new experience. In Prisoner’s Harbor in Channel Islands National Park, off the Santa Barbara coast, I rigged up a sun shade on our foredeck, rolled out my…

Our first sail out of Half Moon Bay, we saw between 50-100 humpback whales — humps, tails, spouts, even some breaches! And the closest encounter was a whale RIGHT NEXT to the boat who dove and splashed us on deck…

Often, the hardest thing to do is to untie the lines and go. There are thousands of moving pieces, logistics, boat projects, items on the checklist, not to mention full-time jobs, that can cloud the mind and make it easy…