It was weird to spend Christmas away from family. This isn’t the first time we haven’t been home – a few years ago, Chris, his parents and I spent Christmas in the jungle in Belize. And last year, we had our very first Christmas (celebrated on Christmas day) in our own apartment due to the […]
This week was all about final prep for the trip. Vero has a fantastic, free bus system, and on Saturday we headed over to Target and Lowes to get some school supplies to bring to donate in the islands, and we needed ratchet straps and a heat gun. It took longer than we’d hoped, but […]
The trip to Vero Beach took us through a narrow channel surrounded by spoil islands and shoals – in places the water was only inches deep right up to the edge of the channel – but it was a pretty trip. We topped off our fuel before pulling into our slip, and the first thing […]
We decided not to stay the full week in Titusville – we had hoped to stop off at Cocoa, and since it’s close enough that we could make the hop in a single morning, we decided to go for it. Chris took the first watch, and I took over so he could take his morning […]
It was really nice to be back on a mooring for a while – although it was so calm that it didn’t feel that much different than being on a dock. One morning, we took Squall to circumnavigate one of the little spoil islands, and it almost felt like we were in the tropics. But […]
Saint Augustine is known as the Ancient City and lays claim to being the oldest city in the United States. I absolutely loved our time here for so many reasons. Since we arrived mid-day Saturday, Chris and I had a rare day and a half to explore together. We spent Saturday afternoon checking out the […]
Hilton Head was an interesting stop, and yet again different in character from the other places we’ve been. I loved our time there, but we really didn’t get to see or explore much since we weren’t all that close to anything. That said, we were in a beautiful spot and we got to meet some […]
For most of the trip, we’ve been pretty good at cooking aboard most nights, reserving one or two nights for going out. But since we treated Charleston like a bit of a vacation, we ate out most of the time. There were so many other restaurants we wanted to try, and the longer we were […]
Sorry, New York, but I have to admit I have a hardcore crush on Charleston. I love the beautiful architecture that combines Caribbean, English, and African influences (and I’m completely in love with the porches!), and there’s so much rich history – not all positive, but all important to understand. Of course there’s also the […]
We left Carolina Beach at first light on Tuesday morning to make it to Southport before work. We had heard Snow’s Cut was challenging with shoaling, so I downloaded the Bob423 track, integrated it with Aqua Maps, and we made it through with no problems. The current was with us through the cut, but it […]