Always ask questions. We talk often about knowledge, what it means, how to attain it and we encourage our kids to always ask questions. We tell them, “Don’t pretend to know something. Get to the core of what you don’t understand by utilizing resources around you.” Asking questions is a fundamental part of understanding the…
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Going With the Flow
“La seule chose constante dans la vie est le changement.” – François de La Rochefoucauld “The only thing constant in life is change.” I am feeling compelled to write this morning about the subject of change (specifically the impetus for, and results of). Why do we strive for ….the big kahuna-waves, the furthest-away…
Nature Rules in Yosemite
While we love our boat-life, “Land-Cruising” is also our thing. When our Cloud10 Racing schedule takes us to the West Coast, we want to see what’s out there! So last fall, after loving San Francisco and racing in a couple J70 regattas there, we took a little detour and drove to Yosemite. Yosemite is easy to get to, located in…
About Socialization
SOCIALIZATION. When talking about our travel school, often someone will comment to us in a hushed tone, “But what about socialization?”… I cringe at the question, but understand the concern. Children are inherently social creatures and luckily ours make friends of every age, color, religion and nationality wherever we go. Travel-Schooling for us, involves about seven…
Every Piece Counts
Travel-School means we experience a lot of freedom in our days. We can choose if we want our school-days to be more structured (as they are lately) or rife with adventure. Some of our days are not much unlike a ‘regular school’ day, in that we start early and work our way through subject, after subject. Some…
Love Changes Everything
“How our lives turn and turn. Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us forever.” – Paula McLain, Circling the Sun We are acutely aware that our nomadic living/learning life is no longer an experiment – we want to continue travel-schooling and adventuring F O…
Safe and Sound
Whew. Well, the good news is that we are safe in BEAR COUNTRY, tucked happily into the Sierra Nevada mountains. Tony is racing TP52’s in Portugal, the kids are thriving in school and life is normal in our beautiful, albeit temporary, Lake Tahoe house. – The not so good news this week was Hurricane Matthew. As you can…
One family’s life of adventure.
“Leave the Dock and Good Things Happen.” Tony often says this – which applies to boats on every level – but also to life in general. Sometimes you just have to let loose the docklines and… go! We started a life of adventure for real when Tony and I were married in September, 2000. Our ten-year old daughter was several years into private…
Springtime Cruise. St. Augustine-Jacksonville
We continued our cruise north from Daytona – sighting a rare Bald Eagle at water’s edge, many dolphins and the other usual suspects of Florida’s nature scene. We thoroughly enjoyed gliding up the coast in total relaxation, with St. Augustine as our target to park at the City Marina for Easter Sunday. Celebrating the seasons…
Boats and Birthdays
“The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.” — Madeleine L’Engle Turning 48 this year was mostly peaceful, full of natural beauty and much joy! We left Coconut Grove and anchored off Key Biscayne on birthday eve. Tony and I watched the sunset from the bow…
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