ONE YEAR – Life Aboard Sailing Catamaran GIRO

So yeah. We just recently celebrated our first year aboard. No big deal. We sold our home and our stuff and left suburbia ONE YEAR AGO and moved aboard GIRO to begin our sailing adventure. What an amazing year. To say that we’ve learned a lot this past year would be an understatement. To be […]

If everyone was jumping off a cliff, would you do it?

As a teenager, my dad used to ask me this question anytime I said, “But everyone else is doing it!!”  Wearing leggings, getting ears pierced, going on dates, staying out past midnight… all activities that I was never cool enough to do as soon as everyone else because my father would kill the argument with one question: “If […]

Happy New Year – Six Months Living on a Sailboat!

Holy cow. Six months. That’s how long we have lived aboard. We moved aboard our catamaran sailboat a little over six months ago, on June 20, 2016. And we are starting 2017, a brand new year, as “liveaboard cruisers”! The past six months have been good/ bad/ happy/ cranky/ hot/ wet/ fun/ tedious/ hilarious/ trying/ […]

2016 Gulf Crossing – The Journal, Day Six

Wow! This is the last day of our crossing the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Florida. Feel free to start at the beginning, or wherever you left off: Day One, Day Two, Day Three, Day Four, and Day Five. Day Six (Thursday): Our Best Day of Sailing! Michelle: Florida was in sight! Cell phone […]

2016 Gulf Crossing – The Journal, Day Five

Day Five of our Crossing!! If this is the first day you are reading… you might want to start at the beginning… Day One, Day Two, Day Three, and Day Four are all ready for you! Feel free to start there and come back! Day Five (Wednesday): Let’s Sail! Michelle: As the sun came up, we were giddy that […]