Hi Everyone - As mentioned in our last post, we returned recently from Antigua where we spent a few days on the island, and then a week on a sailboat. I decided to write a separate post about charter sailing in case you might be considering it as a vacation option.
Hi Everyone! We've just returned from nearly two weeks in Antigua. The first several days were on the island, and the final week was on a charter sailboat. So I will make one post about the island, and a later post about charter boat sailing. Antigua and Barbados
Hi Everyone! It has been a long time since our last post. For the past 6 months, we took a break from our travels to spend time with family. Last year in January, Jen and I fled the cold and went to Key West for a couple weeks, but my
One of our long-awaited bucket list trips was to visit Ireland together. Last month we finally did it! As promised, we wanted to give you an overview and review of what we did in case you are thinking of making this trip yourself! Jen and I flew into Dublin
Hi Everyone! We wanted to give you a few quick updates on the sailboat and our next trip. First, the sailboat (Just Ducky) made it safely across the Pacific. She arrived on August 29th into Long Beach, California (San Diego had some construction ongoing and it was much more expensive)
This will probably be our last blog this trip, so it might be long. We've been in Okinawa for almost a week and wanted to share what the visit has been like. After helping our crew for a couple days, they departed on Monday, July 21st, for San
After 11 days at sea, we finally arrived in Okinawa on Friday morning! Unfortunately, our arrival was not without incident (more on that in a minute). Since our last blog, we experienced some nice sailing. Winds were good, the seas were calmer, and Jen was mostly back to normal. The
Day 10 at sea. We saw land on day 8 as we passed around the northern part of the Philippines, otherwise it's been all water. Day 8 was the most "interesting" day we've had so far. It started out by deciding to raise our
Many of you have asked about what the boat looks like, so I thought I would give you a pictorial tour of where we have lived the past 9 days. Our ride and temporary home is a 55 foot Max Cruise catamaran called Just Ducky. I don't know
Day 7. Quite a lot has changed in the past 48 hours. After 4-5 days of big seas and big winds, everything has calmed. Seas are much calmer and winds have died down, so much so that we have been "motoring" on a diesel engine to help
It's Day 5 of our journey and we are about halfway to our stop in Japan. The reason we are stopping there is to get more provisions and make any needed repairs before crossing the Pacific. So far it's been like the movie Ground Hog Day.
After a lot of planning, preparation and waiting, our journey has finally begun! We departed via the mouth of the Saigon river at daybreak on Monday, July 7th. To say we were all excited to finally be leaving would be a huge understatement. Jen and I loved Saigon, but we
The registration paperwork is finally good! We've cleared customs! We are all set to sail and leaving early tomorrow morning! Finally! For the past two days we finished shopping for food and other needs, and moved on the boat. It took all day to do our shopping and
Well, we're hoping we would be underway on Independence Day. But once again, the paperwork challenges continue. Quick update...the boat registration had another error and once again had to be resubmitted. We THINK that part is now good. All that remains is customs clearance for us to
Jen and I decided to see as much of Saigon as we could the past two days. We would prefer to venture out into the country, but it has been important to stay in Saigon to potentially help with voyage planning. Yesterday we took a water taxi up the Saigon
Yesterday we made our first visit to the boat that will take us 10,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean! Once we get underway and have more time on the boat, we will put together a video tour, but we took a couple pictures to show everyone. In the top
As we wait for the paperwork to get done, Jen and I did some exploring the past two days in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). If you are not familiar with Vietnam, HCMC is formerly known as Saigon and is the largest city in the country. Located on the Saigon
It seems like a week ago, but yesterday morning we left Roanoke for Vietnam. After 30 hours of travel and three flights, we landed late last night and arrived at our hotel around midnight local time (1pm EST). Luckily that meant we could just crash for the rest of the
Most of you reading this already know what we are about to embark on. But many of you may not know some of the details, or why we are doing this. We decided to retire a few years earlier than planned because we had long been committed to only work
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