First of all, happy new year! We hope it’s off to a great start. Ours has been a little rough with fighting ‘holiday crud’, a crazy workload, boat projects and multiple midge invasions. But we’re coming up for air, and ready to start filling in the travelogue a bit. Hard to believe we’ve been in […]
Our Travels
2018 Travel Route & Year in Review
Year end is a great time to be a bit retrospective and to try and summarize the past 12 months of this 12th year of our nomadic life together. If you judged 2018 by our map alone, it doesn’t look like we did much. And we certainly didn’t live up to our original intentions of […]
Letting Serendipity Do the Steering (We’re Staying on the Boat This Winter)
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over our years of perpetual travel is to trust. Trust that things will work out. Even when you think you have a plan, look at it as setting intentions and be open to shifts. The past month has been a reminder of that. Our ‘plans’ going forward have […]
”By All Rights, That Engine Should Start” – Suzuki DF15A Outboard & Customer Service Failure
Our first stop after leaving Jacksonville to cruise up the St. Johns River was Doctors Lake – only 12 nautical miles up stream. We figured this would be a good short first hop to get back into the groove of living on the water, and we had heard that you could dinghy ashore at Whitey’s […]
Two Months in Jacksonville – Getting our City On, Boat Projects, Social Life
We pulled into the Marina at Ortega Landing in Jacksonville in mid-August with a one week reservation. And ended up staying two months. We’re pretty sure by now you’re no longer surprised by these extended stays. A couple weeks of active cruising followed by a month or two still is suiting us quite right these […]
Wrap Up: Great Loop 2018 Cruising Season – Florida’s ICW
With our arrival to Jacksonville, we consider this 2018 Great Loop cruising season to be a wrap. When we set off from Miami in April, we had intentions of making it to the Chesapeake by summer to escape hurricane season. But fatigue from the months prior building up from Hurricane Irma, the submerged channel marker […]
Rendezvous in Jacksonville – Tides & Currents and a Rescue!
We could have easily stayed in St. Augustine on our mooring ball a few more days.. perhaps even weeks. But we had an exciting rendezvous planned up in Jacksonville with dear friends. So.. we untied from the ball and continued our northward cruise. First, our video recap of this segment: First Stop: Pine Island Anchorage […]
Having a BALL in St. Augustine, Florida
There was no doubt that we’d be stopping in St. Augustine on our way north – it’s been a stop we’ve looked forward to for quite a while. So after a nicely balanced visit to Marineland, we were ready cruise northward up the ICW. But first, the video version: The Cruise and our FIRST Mooring […]
Oh No!! Bridge Closed – And Exploring Marineland, Florida
In the days leading up to our departure from New Smyrna Beach, we hadn’t quite figured out where our next stop would be. And frankly, there’s not a lot of choices anyway. We knew St. Augustine would be a must, but it was more than a comfortable day’s cruise for us – so we’d need […]
One Week Turns to Five in New Smyrna Beach, Florida
We arrived to New Smyrna Beach in thanks to a dinner invitation from a YouTube fan. The marina had fabulous reviews, so we had booked a week at their very reasonable rates of $7.50/ft. We figured a little downtime would be good for us after a span of chaos. It didn’t take us long to […]
