After a week spent in serenity in our idyllic anchorage at Peck Lake, we moved back to Manatee Pocket in Stuart for the weekend so that...

This past week has been lovely! We've FINALLY been getting small glimpses here and there of the Florida we know and love.  We've spent...

2025 started off with a bang and I spent the first week and a half of it hunkered down with a bad cold. Thankfully, that is finally...

I've never missed a Christmas at home with my family. It's a time of year and tradition that I cherish, and no matter where I am in the...

I think when most people hear that we live on a boat and travel full time, they have this image in their head of us sipping Mai Tais and...

Yesterday we took half a day off from work to explore and it felt like a little mini vacation all wrapped up in just a few hours! Our...

After our time in Peoria, we were up with the sun to travel to Grafton, IL where the Illinois River converges with the Mississippi River!...

Dustin needed a hair cut so he found a place online, made an appointment, and then we took the dinghy about 5 miles up the river to the...

Asian Carp are an issue in the river systems so in an effort to keep them out, Illinois has built an aquatic barrier that is basically an...

Tomorrow we traverse our first real leg of the river system and will encounter our first lock and dam!! These are the types of ships we...

Dustin changed the engine oil/filters and water pump impellers on both motors today, in 96* heat I might add. While doing so, he found...

Day 3 at the shipyard in Chicago. We are forced to sit in solitary confinement during the days and work like slaves in exchange for food....

We spent yesterday re-caulking the shower, un-wiring the mast, taking the sails off (and killing about a bazillion spiders that crawled...

And we're off!! Spent a wonderful night in our hometown last night (South Haven, Mi). My family had said goodbye to us a couple of nights...

I'm doing one last sweep through the boat to see what we can get rid of that we don't absolutely need and I realized that Bella has three...

Today is our Last. Day. With. A. Car. We are gaining freedom and losing it all at once...exchanging it for a different kind of...

Dustin and I went out to see a Leopard 43' Power Catamaran that had anchored out in Kalamazoo Lake. We drove over and admired the boat...

My awesome sister, Karly, surprised Dustin and I with these super sweet folding electric scooters for the boat!!! These are like the...

This is my friend Otis. He only has 1 foot and sits in the grass most of the day. I found him a few days ago when it was super hot out...

The forecast was calling for 70-80mph winds tonight with baseball sized hail. Thankfully, we missed the brunt of it, got to see some...