“If there were no grace and no kindness, conversation would be useless, and nothing we do would matter. Listen to the new stories that begin every day. If light were not beginning again in the east, I would not now wake and walk out inside this dawn.” – Author: Rumi I’m often blessed with waking up…
The difficulties in life never stop but we can learn to be resilient and successful in our journey. Alison Gieschen When we conceived of the plan to sail around the world, we knew there would be setbacks, we just didn’t know how many we would encounter. There have been many trials and tribulations along…
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill It’s been a while since my last blog post. The last time I posted we were in Lagos, Portugal waiting for our mast to be repaired. It was a long stretch, from November to…
“Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” Jonathan Lockwood Huie It seems we have had one string of bad luck after another, looking back over the last five years of this voyage around the world. It has been fraught with hardships. Many who set out to sail around the world lose heart and…
“You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King It’s halfway through February. I haven’t posted since before Christmas. The reason is – I didn’t have any good news. My mom always told me, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all….
“Christmas…that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance…a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” …
“Sometimes life gives you obstacles. Obstacles that may seem unfair or too extreme. But you are given choices. Break through the obstacles or let the obstacles break you.” Anonymous It all began with a hopeful launch toward our goal of reaching the Caribbean by early January. Even with everything going in our favor, perfect…
“There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.” Woody Hayes As I was scrolling through quotes to begin my blog post, I laughed out loud when I read this one. We got the hell kicked out of us on what should have been a pleasant and easy passage….
“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Ibn Battuta If there is one thing I have learned about this lifestyle we have chosen, it is that I will have stories to tell for a lifetime. In any single day, incidents, accidents, amazing sights and discoveries, add to my…
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.” Eleanor Roosevelt Unless you’ve walked in our shoes, or should I clarify, lived aboard a boat, it would be difficult to imagine our life. I try to share the reality of it all, the good, the bad, the…