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McCall, Idaho USA … Excited to ring in a new year from our winter wonderland here in McCall! We managed to have -15F nights and barely above 0F days, followed by rainy days, all within the span of a week as this season’s crazy winter weather wreaked havoc across the country. Sophia spent tons of […]

McCall, Idaho We are finally (we hope) looking at the backside of the collective insanity that has put numerous boundaries on our pursuit of happiness in the past two years. The dreaded bat flu felled us well before it was a topic on the nightly news, but worse, it put our plans to return to

Boise, Idaho USA … This update from our 2021 “season” is long overdue … perhaps because we spent so little of it sailing, and instead much of it in “transition” modes. As winter in McCall waned, we did some spring trips to visit family in San Diego and Colorado, but then we were off to

McCall, Idaho USA … When we left Kailani dockside a year ago for the winter in a marina in Virginia, our 2020 cruising plans were still being debated. Our then major news was that our dearly beloved Kailani was for sale, one step of many to prepare for Sophia to start high school in mainstream

McCall, Idaho USA … Tidings to you from our winter wonderland in Idaho, where the current temp outside lingers in the 20s and the forecast is calling for over two feet of snow in the coming week. Our seasonal transition from sea to mountain life is in full swing, as we have traded our flip

McCall, Idaho USA … Back in February last year we left Idaho in the midst of a mild winter (only ten days of below zero Fahrenheit) and headed back to join Kailani in Simons Town in South Africa with grandiose plans to sail some 9,000 miles crossing the Atlantic Ocean and spending the summer months

McCall, Idaho USA … We are at this moment in beautiful Idaho sitting in our small living room watching the sun set behind the hills to the west while the thermometer drops like it was broken. As we struggle into multiple layers of clothing to ward off the near zero (that’s F not C) cold

Pangkor, Malaysia … Who’s checking that it is almost the end of MAY and we are finally getting out our “annual” holiday greeting! Oh well, what can we say? Living on land for the last 13 months has been a major adjustment for us sailors, time seemed to tick by at an incredible pace …

Phuket, Thailand … The Annual (Almost Always Late) Holiday Letter 🙂 First off, where are we and how the heck did we get here?  We’ll give you a hint: it’s 6,659.18 sailing miles from New Zealand and it’s hot…darn hot. If you have been staying up with our infrequent posts or if you pulled out

Durango, CO USA … This is absolutely the last year that I am going to let my parents write this letter using me as their foil. In fact I made it very clear to them that to pass off their ramblings as my own is basically a lie, but it seems like they are determined