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 understanding of the world” (from UC Berkeley professor Dachner Kelter who studies awe and wonder…

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 but instead is the social media app/tracker for sailboat cruisers that you can check on…

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 pace of life and not having to move–after the really hard part, we are enjoying…

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 that has ensued. There was a *lot* of calming down after the crossing that needed…

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 across the ocean that posting has not been at the top of the priority list.…

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 in food, texts, emails, phone calls, or memories, has been keeping us going through this…