“You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.” – Timber Hawkeye My vision of what life would be like living on a sailboat and the reality of life aboard a sailboat might be akin to a person going out for a hike. The map shows…
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –…
“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…
It’s been 5 years since we sold everything we owned and moved aboard a sailboat. We have no house, no car, just a boat, a dinghy, and two collapsible bikes. Our goal is to sail to every continent on the planet. We knew this journey would be fraught with many challenges. What we…
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…