22. February 2025

So, we have officially checked out of the country of Mexico! We have been here for nearly 4 months and man, have we seen and learned a lot. We are really grateful that the checkout process went smoothly and now it’s time to keep moving on.

15. February 2025

We were lucky to be able to spend almost 2 weeks tucked into a bay with good friends on family boat called Nike. It was such a sweet season of doing life together every day, and we got into a rhythm of daily tasks in the morning, often followed by an afternoon snorkel, and then finishing the day off with dinner together. It was great to be able to share so many meals, and memories together, especially for the kids to have some friends around, and especially some teenager time.

12. January 2025

After spending a good long while in La Paz, and sending my mom off back to Canada, it felt time to go and do some more exploring. As we were watching the weather, we could see that some strong wind was coming in and we wanted to make sure we were in a safe place to ride that out. A friend had mentioned that there was another Canadian boat with two teen boys that was in the area and she encouraged us to connect with them, so we did. They were in a great spot to ride out the wind so we started to...

05. December 2024

We started our track early to Cabo with a nice amount of wind, and we were even able to make a batch of cinnamon buns while underway. We had some nice buddy boats along for the ride, and we could keep an eye on each other as we all head towards Cabo.

15. November 2024

We made it to Mexico! After a smooth and windless overnight passage from San Diego, we entered Ensenada in the morning after the most non-eventful passage ever. The only way to check into Ensenada is by tucking into a marina, as there’s no option to anchor anywhere. We chose to stay at Marina Coral , and we’re glad we did. They were all super helpful with all the check-in paperwork and documentation and they even took us to the customs office and stood with us every step of the way so we...

24. October 2024

We left Morro Bay on another foggy California morning. We waved to so many rafts of sea otters, and then made our way out into the big gray sea. So far the Californian coast has been way more gray than we ever expected, and it’s been wearing on us all a little in different ways. We’re all still really excited to get towards Mexico, but it seems about 1,000,000 miles away through all of this fog.

07. October 2024

It seems the usual that when we’ve recently left a big city, we crave a small town, like a palate cleanser. Our memory buckets were full of San Francisco and we were ready to move on, especially to some less foggy and chilly weather (what the heck, California!).

25. September 2024

San Francisco had been a big destination highlight for me, and our first really big city that we were going to visit as a family. I think we forget every time that we like big cities in small doses. Small towns always win our hearts over, but we seem to always forget that when the bright and flashy lights of the next big metropolis shows up on the horizon.

19. September 2024

Looking on a map, it seemed that San Francisco was still a million miles away. We had made really good tracks getting down the coast, but we still weren’t where we needed to be. From what we could tell, it was still at least one more overnight passage, a full 24 hours of being underway. So we buckled up and set forth, after an overnight in Shelter Cove, we headed out south.

10. September 2024

Once we had finished with Victoria, it was time to start truly heading south and bracing ourselves for crossing the border in the USA and truly begin this adventure. I don’t think I am alone in feeling minor/major anxiety about border crossings, and I just can’t shake the feeling that I am doing something wrong. But crossing the border by boat was giving Matt and I a bit of extra worries. What if we didn’t eat through all of our apples? Will they make us empty out our stores of food? Will...