Our first week in Nicaragua we were staying in a homestay and taking Spanish classes at La Mariposa Spanish school. This week was not your typical holiday and was a lot of work. Our Spanish classes were long and intense and when we returned to our homestays in the evening, it was a lot of work to try to communicate with our …
As we spend our last day on the boat I want to recognize how this trip was even possible. We were all sitting around at Christmas playing with our new gadgets, reading our new books when I started dreaming that we should buy a boat and go cruising. Within a couple of days my Dad had offered us the opportunity to use their boat. …
We are off to Nicaragua on Saturday for six weeks for our next adventure. So why are we going to Nicaragua? For a long time we have wanted to travel in Central and South America and when we decided to do this sailing adventure, we thought it would be great to tack on a land based trip onto the end. …
The title of this blog is a bit deceptive because really there were two men who were integral in making this trip possible. The first was my Dad. Without his support (and my Mom’s) we wouldn’t have a) had a boat to sail away on b) known what we were doing and c) felt comfortable and confident making mistakes and …
We have arrived in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island after 17 hours of mostly motoring. It was our first time travelling at night so we had to rig up our lighting systems. There is something really serene about travelling at night, especially since it was a full moon and we had both sails up. Unfortunately the wind didn’t last and for most of the next …
I read an article this week on Facebook about the need for kids to be bored at times and to have to find ways to entertain themselves and how our current parenting ways of hyper-scheduling kids and their activities has led to kids not knowing what to do when faced with unscheduled time. It got me reflecting to how our kids and their play have …
