Friday, January 22, 2021Travel Day: Carlsbad, NM to Alamogordo, NMODOMETER: 83,225 | TODAY'S MILES: 147 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,280 by JanaToday, we had about a 3-hour drive from Carlsbad, NM to Alamogordo, NM. It was a beautiful scenic drive that spanned from the...
Thursday, January 21, 2021Carlsbad, New MexicoODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by JanaToday was largely dedicated to school for the kids and maintenance and cleaning for Grant and myself. Grant spent time installing a cell booster to ensure we get the...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021Roswell, New MexicoODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by JanaToday’s highlight was an after-school field trip to Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell is the site of a 1947 UFO crash that was covered up by the government as a weather...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021Carlsbad, NMODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by JanaToday was another day filled with school, work and chores. Grant and I ventured into Artesia, the closest town to our RV park, to buy groceries and to try and procure a belated...
Monday, January 18, 2021Carlsbad Caverns, NMODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by JanaToday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so JacK and Stellie didn’t have school. We took advantage of this and visited the Carlsbad Caverns. Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico...
Sunday, January 17, 2021Carlsbad, NMODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by JanaToday was another day of catching up. Jack and Stellie have midterms coming up and they need to get some work done before the end of the semester. Virtual school is one of the...
Saturday, January 16, 2021Carlsbad, NMODOMETER: 83,078 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by GrantToday was catch up and recovery day. We have been traveling a lot in the last 16 days. Starting off in New Orleans for Jack’s 16th birthday on New Year’s Eve, we went through...
Friday, January 15, 2021Travel Day | Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, TX to Carlsbad, NMODOMETER: 83,078 | TODAY'S MILES: 289 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,133 by GrantWe rose early as we have tended to do throughout the trip and both of us were sore. A fifteen mile...
Sunday, January 24, 2021Travel Day | Alamogordo, NM to Tucson, AZODOMETER: 83,559 | TODAY'S MILES: 334 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,614 by JanaToday’s drive was one of our longer ones at about 6.5 hours. The scenery was once again spectacular, but the weather did not...
Saturday, January 23, 2021White Sands National Park & Lincoln National ForestODOMETER: 83,225 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,280 by JanaToday, we had White Sands National Park on our agenda. The weather was beautiful and we were all excited to visit this natural...
Friday, January 22, 2021Travel Day: Carlsbad, NM to Alamogordo, NMODOMETER: 83,225 | TODAY'S MILES: 147 | MILES TRAVELED: 5,280 by JanaToday, we had about a 3-hour drive from Carlsbad, NM to Alamogordo, NM. It was a beautiful scenic drive that spanned from the...
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passage A Long-Awaited Departure After having waited in French Polynesia for two and a half months, we excitedly sailed out of Bora Bora around 7:30 am on Saturday, September 4th. Like the rest of French...
After having waited in French Polynesia for two and a half months, we excitedly sailed out of Bora Bora around 7:30 am on Saturday, September 4th. Like the rest of French Polynesia, Bora Bora was in COVID lockdown, and we had spent the last week waiting for our departure paperwork to go through all the requisite bureaucratic channels. This required multiple trips to the local gendarmerie (police station), where Grant quickly befriended the two kind and helpful officers, Alex and Bruno.
It took us about 24 hours to get from Mo’orea to Bora Bora on August 28 2021. Like the rest of French Polynesia, Bora Bora was in COVID lockdown, and we spent a week there waiting for our departure paperwork to go through all the requisite bureaucratic channels. This required multiple trips to the local gendarmerie (police station), where Grant quickly befriended the two kind and helpful officers, Alex and Bruno.
We made trips to get water, fuel and provisions, but apart from that we had to stay on the boat. We passed the time snorkeling (saw a giant moray eel!) and inventing new water sports.
Once we received our exit paperwork, we were finally free to leave for Fiji.
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passage A Long-Awaited Departure After having waited in French Polynesia for two and a half months, we excitedly sailed out of Bora Bora around 7:30 am on Saturday, September 4th. Like the rest of French...
After having waited in French Polynesia for two and a half months, we excitedly sailed out of Bora Bora around 7:30 am on Saturday, September 4th. Like the rest of French Polynesia, Bora Bora was in COVID lockdown, and we had spent the last week waiting for our departure paperwork to go through all the requisite bureaucratic channels. This required multiple trips to the local gendarmerie (police station), where Grant quickly befriended the two kind and helpful officers, Alex and Bruno.
It took us about 24 hours to get from Mo’orea to Bora Bora on August 28 2021. Like the rest of French Polynesia, Bora Bora was in COVID lockdown, and we spent a week there waiting for our departure paperwork to go through all the requisite bureaucratic channels. This required multiple trips to the local gendarmerie (police station), where Grant quickly befriended the two kind and helpful officers, Alex and Bruno.
We made trips to get water, fuel and provisions, but apart from that we had to stay on the boat. We passed the time snorkeling (saw a giant moray eel!) and inventing new water sports.
Once we received our exit paperwork, we were finally free to leave for Fiji.
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We are currently sailing the South Pacific to Australia.
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