Let’s go back in time for a moment…remember when Lucas and I were in the Bahamas back in March? Well, as unlikely as it sounds, our Alaska dreams were born while on a mooring ball in Hope Town, Abacos. Nellie had traveled all the way from Tuntituliak, Alaska, taking five flights over two days, to […]
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It’s 5:15 a.m. Lucas, Paul and I are climbing into our pre-scheduled Lyft on our way to the San Diego train station the day before my 37-birthday. This is the start of our multi-day, multi-modal-3,500 mile trip to Alaska. Our first priority upon arriving to the station was, of course, coffee and some breakfast. Our
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Paul picked us up from the San Diego airport on Sunday, December 14, a short four hours after leaving Kansas. This was our second visit to see him in San Diego. We visited him in 2022, right after he moved, helping sail his new to him sailboat from Long Beach, California to San Diego Harbor.
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Moving off the island was a big lift and not just because we had to move everything without motorized vehicles. I was nervous to travel while working my new job. Lucas, our travel agent, had been working furiously to book all of our modes of transport and accommodations for our winter travels. By early December,
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Due to all the crazy developments of our second season on the island, you might be wondering what our winter was going to look like. Just like anything in our new lives, the plan changed about a million times as the summer continued. Before I landed my new job, we had already made the decision
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It’s October 10, and I’m getting paid to have breakfast with a former German ambassador to Poland at the Grand Hotel. How the heck did I get here? Let’s start from the beginning. We arrived in Michigan in early April, about 10 days earlier than the previous year. We enjoyed a wonderful Easter week with
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Better late than never! Here is a look at our stats after our second year in salt water. Sailing year 2 certainly felt like a sophomore year. We knew so much more than our first season but that didn’t keep us completely out of trouble. We had a slow start for a number of good
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Avid readers will know by now that there are two rules to sailing, taught to us in our very first sailing lesson at North Cape Yacht Club – 1. Stay on the boat 2. Don’t hit anything hard. By March 16, 2025, we had traveled more than 5,000 nautical miles and visited many states and
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We left Hope Town at high tide on Wednesday, March 12, more than a month after we first pulled into this magical place. It was bittersweet to leave. Knowing we were on our way back to our favorite island certainly helped. As the Elbow Cay Lighthouse grew smaller off our stern, Mackinac Island seemed a
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Avid readers will remember that setting deadlines is strongly discouraged in the sailing world, we’ve made that mistake before. Unfortunately, deadlines are sometimes unavoidable. Our latest deadline was May 1, the day we needed to start work on Mackinac Island. Over the winter, we had been offered our same jobs at the park and we
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