My post yesterday was entitled, How could we imagine such a thing? In case you have yet to read it, the title referred to how I believe some people reacted (or react) to our less-than-mainstream plans. In what I feel is a perfect example of irony, I found myself asking that exact same question yesterday. My question was directed towards a young lady who had a crazy dream. Her plan wasn't to sail around the world, or ride a bike…
In early 2009, when we first shared our plans to purchase a sailboat and go cruising, we had many doubters. After all, how could we imagine such a thing, we'd never even sailed before? Amazingly, the naysayers held on to their beliefs long after we left Canada, some expecting, if not willing us to return with our tails between our legs. I suspect that now, 7 years later, most of these people's doubts have been put to rest, at least…
Understandably, after sharing the news of our Christmas present / adventure vehicles, the question most everyone wanted to ask, and some actually did, is where do we plan to ride? It only makes sense for people to be curious. When Rebecca and I discussed sharing our plans though, we were initially apprehensive as, at this point in time, we still have a lot of things in play that could affect where we begin, and which route we take. That said,…
Last week I not only dropped a bombshell on most of you, letting you know that we're ready to take a break from boating, I also began laying a fairly-elaborate breadcrumb trail, leading you down a path to our announcing what our next big adventure is going to be. As it turns out, a few people actually guessed correctly after Saturday's post. Congratulations to those who were able to put two and two together, read between the lines, and of course read the…
If you've been following along this week, Thursday's post talked about some cruising friends who have either left boating altogether to pursue land exploration in an RV, or who have decided to split their time between a land-yacht and an actual one. Yesterday's post shared a couple of examples of friends of ours whose plans involve exploring Europe and parts of Asia by backpacking. I find all their stories both interesting, and inspiring. The non-water-based travel inspiration emanating from our boating friends doesn't end…
A week or two ago, two good friends of ours, Jim and Sherry, made a big announcement: they had purchased one-way tickets to Singapore, and later this season would be commencing a backpacking trip around Southeast Asia. We first met these crazy kids when they were cruising on their own boat. For the last couple of years, however, they've been running crewed charters on a big cat in the Virgins, much like we did, and by all accounts, have been…