Our Travel Blog
Our Travel BlogTravel
Please note that the focus of our blog is not to be a travel guide or a review site. Rather, it is a family diary of our travels accompanied by “Reflections,” which are thought pieces about our experiences.
As we are currently living on a sail boat in French Polynesia, our internet access is quite limited and we are unable to post daily diary entries. You can visit our social media channels for short updates and we will be posting recaps and reflections of longer time periods less frequently.
Thanks for traveling with us! 😎✌️
Our Travel Blog
Travel
Please note that the focus of our blog is not to be a travel guide or a review site. Rather, it is a family diary of our travels accompanied by “Reflections,” which are thought pieces about our experiences.
As we are currently living on a sail boat in French Polynesia, our internet access is quite limited and we are unable to post daily diary entries. You can visit our social media channels for short updates and we will be posting recaps and reflections of longer time periods less frequently.
Thanks for traveling with us! 😎✌️
Travel Diary
Travel
A daily log of what we get up to, including a photo and video gallery from each day.
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passage
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passageinstagramfacebookyoutubetwitter 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....
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 3: Bora Bora to Fiji Passage
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.
Reflections
Reflections
Our personal reflections on some of our travel experiences.
How Big Is Too Big?
Lessons From the Road | How Big Is Too Big?instagramfacebookyoutubetwitterDoes Our Built Environment Affect Our Relationships? The “Big Mac” symbolizes the belief that more is better. If one beef patty is good, wouldn’t two beef patties be better? Similarly, the...
Lessons from the Road | Less is More: Adventure over Stuff
Lessons From the Road | Less is More: Adventure Over StuffinstagramfacebookyoutubetwitterWe have been on the road for about four months, and while that’s a relatively short time, I think that some of the big lessons happen in the initial “adjustment period” of an...
Places
Places
These are some of the places we have visited so far. Click here to view all.
BC
Baja, Mexico
UT
Utah
National Parks
Parks
These are some of the National Parks we have visited. Click here to view all.
AZ
Grand Canyon
UT
Arches
Our Trip
Trip
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While at sea, the moon provides the only light at night. It is amazing how different night sailing is during different phases of the moon. The moon is divine feminine energy and this full moon and lunar eclipse is an opportunity to bring our masculine and feminine aspects into balance. ☯️ 📷: @jack_gamble_shoots
It’s been a very busy few weeks re-entering the world (and moving to a new country) after two weeks at sea and two weeks in quarantine. We have spent some wonderful time with some of our family and friends, moved off the boat into an Airbnb and started exploring Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and the Gold Coast. It has been a very big transition (not enough hours in the day), but so far so good!
Our family has always loved Halloween. In Virginia, we lived next to a very cool old cemetery so we organized a haunted hay ride (see photo number 4), complete with the scary chain saw guy. Sadly, there will be no costumes this year, but we will watch a scary movie on the boat tonight. Happy Halloween from Brisbane! 🎃🧡🎃🧡🎃🧡🎃
We let our hair down after getting released from quarantine today. We spent two weeks at sea followed by two weeks locked in a hotel room, which means that our feet didn’t really touch the earth in a month. We found a park and in between scrubbing the boat we took a walk and put our feet in the grass. We are so happy to be back out in nature! 💚
In 2 days, we will get released from quarantine in Australia. In 4 days, it will be one year since we sold everything and hit the road in Virginia. When we started out in Thelma the bus, we had no idea where we were going or how long we were going to travel for. The idea of crossing the South Pacific in a sailboat was unfathomable and scary. But our entire year was an exercise in listening to the guidance we were receiving, letting go, and trusting. Right now, pretty much everything is an unknown for us and it will take a lot of all these things to start a new life in a country we love. 📷 @jack_gamble_shoots
TRAVEL WITH US!
We are currently sailing the South Pacific to Australia.
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