Planning

I love to plan.  It is pretty much what I do for a living – plan fundraising events and campaigns for a non-profit helping families with children battling cancer.  I love planning. A lot.  I say this because I desperately want to plan our entire trip around the world.  Like dates/ times/ location/ duration/ etc. But the urge to plan […]

Family Time

One of the things I am most looking forward to about being on the boat is spending more time with my family.  I love my kids – they crack me up on a daily basis and infuriate me like nobody else can, and I can’t wait to see the world through their eyes as we travel […]

Sail Date set…

So, Matt and I went through our budget and came up with a 27 month plan to get out of debt (hooray!)  – and then another 15 months to save and ship off…  Nov/Dec 2013 should be our target to set sail. [UPDATED: We are now committed to a January 1, 2014 sail date.  Want to […]

Fears and other random thoughts…

All morning I have been thinking about everything I am looking forward to about living on a boat, and also everything I fear about living on a boat.  These are very random. I look forward to being without a schedule, but I fear that it will actually drive me crazy. I look forward to going with the […]

We are blogging!

I ask. And I receive. I asked for a blog to start documenting our journey from land-dwellers to sailors.  And Matt got this up and running in no time. Just so you know… we are VERY early in our pursuit of a life at sea. (i.e. Matt talked me into it recently)  We are not at […]