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Population: 3.2 million
Capital: Salt Lake City
Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
Day 180: Travel Day | Bryce Canyon to Zion National Park, UT
Sunday, April 25, 2021Travel Day | Bryce Canyon to Zion National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 86,703 | TODAY'S MILES: 154 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,493We had a tough, windy drive to Zion from Bryce this morning.ย Everyone was tired once we got there, so we stayed in and caught...
Day 179: Bryce Canyon National Park, UT
Saturday, April 24, 2021Bryce Canyon National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 86,5549 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,339Today, we hiked the Hat Shop Trail at Bryce Canyon. This 7-mile hike features amazing balanced-rock hoodoo clusters along the trail's edge. The narrow orange pinnacles...
Day 177: Travel Day | Grand Canyon, AZ to Bryce Canyon, UT
Friday, April 23, 2021Travel Day | Grand Canyon, AZ to Bryce Canyon, UTODOMETER:ย 86,5549 | TODAY'S MILES: 145 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,339In the morning, we set off for Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park. The first leg of the drive was along the rim of the Grand...
Zion National Park, UT
Day 183: Travel Day | Zion National Park to Moab, UT
Wednesday, April 28, 2021Travel Day | Zion National Park to Moab, UTODOMETER:ย 87,034 | TODAY'S MILES: 331 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,824We had a long drive from Zion National Park to Moab, UT today. It took about 6 hours, but the drive was pretty stress-free and...
Day 182: Zion National Park, UT
Tuesday, April 27, 2021Zion National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 86,703 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,493After school today, we went back into Zion National Park to do more exploring. The hike we planned on doing was super crowded, so we opted against it and instead found a back...
Day 181: Zion National Park, UT
Monday, April 26, 2021Zion National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 86,703 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,493It was a beautiful, rainy day in Zion National Park, Utah. Zionโs geology features some of the tallest sandstone monoliths in the world. It was named โZionโ by Mormon pioneers...
Day 180: Travel Day | Bryce Canyon to Zion National Park, UT
Sunday, April 25, 2021Travel Day | Bryce Canyon to Zion National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 86,703 | TODAY'S MILES: 154 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,493We had a tough, windy drive to Zion from Bryce this morning.ย Everyone was tired once we got there, so we stayed in and caught...
Moab, UT | Arches National Park
Day 187: Travel Day : Moab to Salt Lake City, UT
Sunday, May 2, 2021Travel Day | Moab to Salt Lake City, UTODOMETER:ย 87,358 | TODAY'S MILES: 240 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 9,064Today was a travel day from Moab to Salt Lake City. It was about a 5-hour drive and was relatively stress-free and beautiful. We got to our...
Day 186: Moab, UT | Arches National Park
Saturday, May 1, 2021Arches National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 87,034 | TODAY'S MILES: 331 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,824This afternoon, Grant Jack and I went for a run/ride in the desert. It was hot, windy and VERY dry. Some pretty tough conditions, but we made it.In the...
Day 185: Moab, UT | Arches National Park
Friday, April 30, 2021Arches National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 87,034 | TODAY'S MILES: 331 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,824In order to avoid crowds, we set out for a sunset hike of Devil's Garden Trail in Arches. It did not disappoint and even though we didn't get back until...
Day 184: Moab, UT | Arches National Park
Thursday, April 29, 2021Arches National Park, UTODOMETER:ย 87,034 | TODAY'S MILES: 331 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,824We visited Arches National Park this afternoon and it was truly spectacular.ย Arches National Park in Utah has the densest concentration of natural stone...
Day 183: Travel Day | Zion National Park to Moab, UT
Wednesday, April 28, 2021Travel Day | Zion National Park to Moab, UTODOMETER:ย 87,034 | TODAY'S MILES: 331 | TOTAL MILES TRAVELED: 8,824We had a long drive from Zion National Park to Moab, UT today. It took about 6 hours, but the drive was pretty stress-free and...
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Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passage
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passageinstagramfacebookyoutubetwitter ย 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.
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 2: Mo’orea to Bora Bora
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 aย 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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Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passage
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 4: Fiji to Brisbane Passageinstagramfacebookyoutubetwitter ย 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.
Sailing Tahiti to Australia | Leg 2: Mo’orea to Bora Bora
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 aย 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.
๐ท: @jack_gamble_shoots
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. โฏ๏ธ ๐ท: @jack_gamble_shoots
Itโs 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! ๐๐งก๐๐งก๐๐งก๐
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 didnโt 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! ๐
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. ๐ท @jack_gamble_shoots
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We are currently sailing the South Pacific to Australia.
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