It’s been a long week since Irma hit the state of Florida and beyond – for all. Not just us. Given the word was that it could take weeks for residents to be allowed back into the middle Keys – we opted to stay up in Alabama a few more days. We had been joined […]
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Why Does it Storm Every Time We Leave the Boat?? (A Quick Trip to St. Louis)
One of the reasons we decided to stick around Ft. Myers for another month is family. Chris’ dad had open heart surgery a few weeks ago, and we’ve been on pins & needles during his recovery. We wanted to be near a major airport in a safe place, just in case. His family was also planning […]
Hurricane Irma Evacuation Status Update: We Have Left the Keys by Land
Just wanted to get a quick update out on our hurricane preparation and evacuation – as we shared (yesterday? last week? last month?.. it’s been a long few days) we were considering a few different options. First of all, we could not be more thankful for the support of our communities all across social media […]
2017 Travel Route & Year in Review
Let’s face it, 2017 has been one heck of a memorable year! Year end is a great time to be a bit retrospective and try to summarize the past 12 months in one spot. Usually we wrap our years up with a route of our travels that shows us flinging ourselves across the country. And if […]
Dealing with Stress: Ending our Whole30 Diet Hack
It’s no doubt we’ve had a bit of stress in our lives this fall dealing with hurricanes and now the channel marker incident trying to leave the Keys. After returning to Marathon post-Irma, we really noticed our diet had gotten pretty unhealthy during all of the chaos. It was too easy to default to stress-eating […]
Leaving Ft. Myers and Continuing our Great Loop Adventure South!
It was with mixed emotions that pulled out of Ft. Myers earlier this month to continue our Great Loop Adventure. It’s rare we stay anywhere for 3 months at a time, and were so in need of some still time. The city of Ft. Myers won our hearts and kept sucking us in. But it was time […]
Moving To Water – So What About the Bus?
Ever since we announced our plans to do the Great Loop and start exploring the country by water – we’ve been flooded with one question, over and over. What about the bus? Are you getting rid of Zephyr? People are naturally curious after having followed along in our epic bus adventures for the past nearly six years, and […]
Hurricane Irma Recovery Update: It’s October Already?!?!
It seems like the month of September was one big blur, and suddenly we wake up and it’s October. A month ago, we were watching the weather forecasts and Irma was just this tropical threat that might give us some outer bands to contend with. And then wham, the next morning the forecasts shifted and […]
Hurricane Irma Update: Marathon Takes the Brunt
We could not sleep Saturday evening as the hurricane started to impact Marathon. Our remote security camera (a Zmodo Pivot) we left behind running on our AT&T Unite Explore hotspot was sending us chilling images and sounds. Wind whooshing, creeping, knocking, banging. We hoped with all hope we had done all we could to secure […]
Y-Not – Our 1999 Bayliner 4788 Motor Yacht
Meet Y-Not Y-Not – from the day we purcharsed her in March 2017. In March 2017, we purchased Y-Not, a 1999 Bayliner 4788. Our original intentions were to slowly explore the American Great Loop seasonally over a few years. Reality has been, we just love cruising and are enjoying ‘generally’ following the Loop going at our […]