Meredith and I used to have two different lives. Our home life and our work life. Our jobs were very different, so the personalities and habits that we had at work were night and day. When we left our careers and moved onto a boat, those other selves had to go somewhere…so they came with…
Author: greg
Every Friday
Everybody on Twig showers every Friday, whether they need it or not. That’s what we’ve resorted to. Combined with our speed of travel, we’re slowly resembling old west settlers more than a 21st century family. It started with conservation. When we first moved aboard, we didn’t know how far our water tanks would stretch, so…
I wet the bed
Today I wet the bed. The worst part is that it wasn’t the first time lately. The last time was a few months ago in the Bahamas while we were running away from a nasty squall. That time was really embarrassing, because I wet the boys bed, not my own. When you share a…
What The Fog?!
I went down to take a quick she-she (that’s Hawaiian for pee-pee) and left Jade at the helm. When I came up I remember thinking “hmm, that’s funny, visibility is pretty poor. Was it like that when I went downstairs?”. It probably was, I just hadn’t noticed the haze slowly creeping in on us. …
Suck it Murphy
You’ve heard it before. “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”. Well, yesterday proves that is even more true on a sailboat. We’d been stuck in West Palm Beach for the last two weeks, which is exactly two weeks longer than we planned on being there. Weather is what weather is, and…