When leaving Cortado in a Marathon boatyard for a new bathroom refit, we said goodbye to our sunny Florida coastal life and wished OUTLOUD, strong and hard for snow when we arrived in Newport the following day. Tony flew to Antigua for a regatta and the kids and I hoped we might get to experience…
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Key West Race Week
We arrived in Key West in nice weather this time and ready to race! The kids and I immediately set up school, picked up groceries and cleaned up the boat, as we know we will have many visitors this week. We have gotten used to hearing, “all hands on deck!” …which means everyone helps. Key…
Cruising Cortado and Christmas 2014
We started out writing this blog, as a way to communicate with our families in Indiana, Maryland, Virginia and New York. This may explain why some posts are not about ideas or newfound wisdom, but just a glorified, public diary of our journey. Please understand at this time, we are just figuring things out. Our…
Christmas Prep from Miami to Marathon
School work and art time onboard CORTADO. Miami has been full of school, holiday surprises, and meeting new friends. What great fun (and equally, great CHALLENGE) to try to create and replicate our old ways of celebrating the Christmas season without the comforts of our house, decorations, friends and traditions we know and love so…
I (Heart) Coconut Grove
Do you know that Dinner Key Marina in Miami originally served as base of operations for Pan American Airway’s famed flying boats, the Clippers (basically the first-ever Sea Planes)? The original Pan Am terminal building (next door) now serves as Miami’s City Hall. Dinner Key is a short walk to all the cool shops and…
Preparing for Life on the Water
This is a fabulous example (thank you artist Andy Whitlock) of our situation right now. We have lists! So many lists. Ok not exactly. We have one main list that Tony organizes, monitors and soundly revises and then there are the 14,000 lists that are in my head. All scattered, un-alphabetized and jammed with worry…
Recharging our Batteries.
Arriving home from two months in Europe was sooo nice. No matter where one has been or how long gone, there is nothing quite like sleeping in your own bed. But there was no rest for the weary here, as we had only a short two weeks to get ready to move to Florida…
Salo, Torbole and Arco
Arriving in Salo on the west coast of Lake Garda was a vision. Salo is a gorgeous town – which we would have never known, had Sophia not discovered it while researching her geography project in early September. After lunch, we drove the last hour north to Torbole which was possibly one of the most…
Southern France and the Alps
Our plan was to get to Avignon, France for dinner. We were interested in the Palais-des-Papes: an enormous “palace” built for the Catholic Popes who were no longer safe in Italy. They moved to France for about 70 years in the 14th century and ruled with an iron fist from there. The Palace of the…
Traveling is All about Relationships
We are so grateful for the relationships we have made over the years and treasure them. In the sailing world, these friendships are vital to living a quality nomadic life. We feel comfortable traveling to so many places, because we know we will be seeing friends! This also opens up the world for the kids…
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