Our last post was on October 6 – just as we passed a previous record flood level from 1953 here at the waterfront in Downtown Sanford Lake Monroe ended up cresting at 8.96′ above normal on October 9th, and the waters have been slowly receding since then. We’ve been living in flood conditions for 20 days […]
Cruising / Boating (March 2017 - present)
Hurricane Ian’s Aftermath – Record Flooding at the Downtown Sanford Marina & the St. Johns River
Just a few short days ago, I ended our Hurricane Ian experience on a positive note with only slight mention of water rising here at the Downtown Sanford Marina where we are aboard our boat. Oh, how I’d love to rewind to those innocent days where a little water on the streets was all there […]
Hurricane Ian Report from Sanford (We’re Ok!)
Thank you for all the support and thoughts during Hurricane Ian. We’ve been busy undoing our storm preps and catching up on sleep, but thought we’d take a moment to check in. Quick answer.. everything is a-OK aboard Y-Not. She’s a champ. And so is her crew. We ended up riding out the storm aboard, […]
Preparing for Hurricane Ian (We’re Back in Sanford!)
A little bit of a diversion from the travelogue for a real time update. We returned to Sanford, Florida last week and are back aboard Y-Not. After a relatively quiet hurricane season, we of course have returned to Hurricane Ian. We’ve been fielding a number of questions on our status/plans. The track is looking to […]
Time for Summer Van Travels – Wrapping Up our Season in Sanford
And just like that, summer is solidly here in Florida and the temperatures are heating up. Our season back on the boat is coming to an end. This week we are getting the boat ready for longer term wet storage for hurricane season while we set off on some van adventures for a few months. […]
Retrospective: 2020 & 2021 – Setting a Foundation for the Future
I don’t have to describe the bigger challenges of the past couple of years. We’ve all gone through them. For us, it meant a more homebased life living aboard Y-Not in Sanford. Overall, despite the craziness of the world at large – we’ve been incredibly fortunate. All our years on the road gave us the […]
Retrospective: 2019 – Nomadic Balance
After so many lessons on the road over the years, I’d say 2019 was a year of tremendous balance. It wasn’t without obstacles. But we navigated them without overwhelm thanks to the skillsets we had built already. We focused on the important things. We evacuated, again, for another major hurricane – but it thankfully turned […]
Retrospective: 2018 – Correcting the Course
Our first year of boat ownership was definitely not without a huge learning curve. And despite the challenges, we were loving it. At the beginning of 2018, it was time to get back to our intentions – continue our Great Loop and integrate in part of the year with RVing. Fresh out of the boat […]
Retrospective: 2017 – Gratitude & Humility
After 10 years on the road in various RVs, we decided to switch it up by getting a boat in 2017. While we had established ourselves as ‘experts’ in the RV space, we were now Strangers in a Strange Land.. err.. water. We were complete newbies having gone from an inflatable kayak to a 47′ […]
New Internet Video, Blog Comments Are Back & General Updates
Last month, our host of this site since we started it way back in 2007 – DreamHost – moved us from our legacy server to a new one. The website went completely down in the process, but thankfully they were able to restore the content and most of the formatting. However, for reasons unexplained – […]
