When I was about 16 or 17 years old, I wrote a letter to my mentor about being confused and working through adolescence. It was about...

One of my new role models, Brené Brown said, “Write what you need to read.” This is the first time I had heard that, and I really like it...

Sailing out to the islands on a cloudy day was nice. After squashing what we thought were all of our obstacles to getting out to the...

As it turns out, we had to take care of a few more pressing items before getting in the water. Sailboats are funny like that, as soon as...

One week into round two of our Baja adventure, and we are happy it hasn’t been all work. We left our Denver home and dog with my aunt and...

Big news – we are heading back down to La Paz, Mexico! We knew we needed to get back down and take care of our boat, but we were not sure...

Now that we have wrapped up most of the projects around the house, we are a little stir crazy while deciding what to do next. I have been...

We have come pretty far now. Tim and I are living in our home finally. We moved in the week his parents arrived for a visit at the end of...

Renovation update: we have made and repaired many holes in drywall, removed every little scrap of remaining wallpaper, demolished the...

It was hard to see the Luckiest getting hauled out of the water. It was clear she didn’t belong on land, so my nerves were on edge as...

This is what we came here for. Island hopping from one beautiful anchorage to the next, hiking, kayaking, snorkeling, combing the beaches...

One of the questions I get most often about life on a boat is, “How can you stand each other that often in such a small space?” The...

Welp, we made it to Galveston from La Paz by car. We drove all the way up the Baja peninsula and across Arizona, New Mexico and Texas…...

Steve and Debbie were not quite sure what they had signed up for when they decided to visit us in La Paz, but I think they were very...

When we got back to La Paz we had a distinct list of items we wanted to complete: change the engine oil, replace transmission hose, fix...

To get ourselves out of our little funk of thinking “What did we do?” we headed out to the nearby islands to regroup and do what we came...

I’m catching up a bit because I had no internet access for nine days. This is from Nov. 30, 2011. So far, we are really enjoying the...

As we walked around town trying to find the Dia de los Muertos celebration the day after we arrived, Tim kept saying, “We live in...

Well we are working our way slowly but surely down the Baja. We have had ZERO wind, so we are motoring the whole way. This is much less...

I often start my day or my week with a very detailed to do list to keep myself organized and focused on my tasks and goals at hand. With...