Where do I even begin? How about with an email from one of our readers. "Chris and Melody, It has been a long, long time since your last blog post. I hope all is well with you both and just wonder if you have any updates to your journey. Your posts are always quite interesting. Thanks, and mucha suerte!" It has indeed been a long, LONG time since my last post. Back in … [Read more...]
Tiny Living on a Sailboat
I hope you're having a great holiday season -- I can't believe 2018 is almost over! I just wanted to make a quick post to let you know that I've been featured on the Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast with Ethan Waldman. The episode is called Tiny Lifestyle on the Water. In our interview, we talked about: Why it's so hard to downsize and how to make it easier The … [Read more...]
The Sweet River
If you're a regular reader here, you most likely sail, dream about sailing someday, or like to read about those of us who suffer from this incurable disease called, Wanderlust. Maybe you are one of the afflicted as well. I cannot shake the desire to move and travel. To see what's around the next bend, whether it's a bend in a river or a winding stretch of road. I have to … [Read more...]
We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming…
Some of you may know this and some of you may not, but a couple of months ago, we fairly quietly listed Vacilando for sale. I say fairly quietly, because we put up an ad on Sailboat Listings, then posted 2 Facebook posts about it. That was it. You see, once we made it down to Guatemala for hurricane season and had a chance to take a bit of a rest, we noticed for the first … [Read more...]
Isla Mujeres: The Island of Women
Our offering to Neptune worked. He must be a Havana Club rum fan because our exit from Cuba and the transit across the Yucatan channel was uneventful. We were now on our way to Isla Mujeres, a place we'd been wanting to sail to for a long time. After fueling up, checking out and topping off our water tanks, we left the dock at Cabo San Antonio around 2pm. At approximately … [Read more...]