Whew.. lots of recent excitement over adding the Travato to our nomadic fleet this month. But we still have lots of cruising travel stuff to catch you up on to get us to Georgia! So lets do the time warp back to March… Last we left you, we were fighting midges in our beloved Sanford. So […]
Travelogues
The Midges of Seminole County (Time to Leave Sanford)
Our stay in Sanford was on a whole, amazing. As we shared in our last post, we loved the historic downtown, the marina, the friends we made and the entertainment options. As soon as we extended our stay, we bought tickets to the last showing of The Bridges of Madison County playing at the Theater […]
Oh Sanford – How you Won our Hearts (#sanfording)
I know however this post comes out, it’ll never be able to fully convey our amazing stay in Sanford. How do you summarize four months into one post? We get asked all the time ‘what’s your favorite place’ or ‘if you decide to settle down, where would it be?’ After 13-years of full time travel […]
St. Johns River Cruise – Part 3: Lake George to Sanford (Living in a Wildlife Documentary!)
And now, the final episode on our southbound cruise of the St. Johns River – the final push into Sanford. If you missed the first parts, be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 first. And as always, the video version of this segment. This is our very first 4K rendered video – […]
St. Johns River Cruise – Part 2: Deep Creek to Georgetown (Twisty Creeks and Tasty Shrimp)
Time to pick back up the travelogue, this time the second part of our St. Johns River cruise heading into Sanford. If you missed the first part, click on back to get an overview of this little side voyage. First, the video version of this segment with lots of awesome drone & time lapse footage: […]
Starting our Cruise Up the St. Johns River – Part 1: Jacksonville to Deep Creek
First of all, happy new year! We hope it’s off to a great start. Ours has been a little rough with fighting ‘holiday crud’, a crazy workload, boat projects and multiple midge invasions. But we’re coming up for air, and ready to start filling in the travelogue a bit. Hard to believe we’ve been in […]
Letting Serendipity Do the Steering (We’re Staying on the Boat This Winter)
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned over our years of perpetual travel is to trust. Trust that things will work out. Even when you think you have a plan, look at it as setting intentions and be open to shifts. The past month has been a reminder of that. Our ‘plans’ going forward have […]
”By All Rights, That Engine Should Start” – Suzuki DF15A Outboard & Customer Service Failure
Our first stop after leaving Jacksonville to cruise up the St. Johns River was Doctors Lake – only 12 nautical miles up stream. We figured this would be a good short first hop to get back into the groove of living on the water, and we had heard that you could dinghy ashore at Whitey’s […]
Two Months in Jacksonville – Getting our City On, Boat Projects, Social Life
We pulled into the Marina at Ortega Landing in Jacksonville in mid-August with a one week reservation. And ended up staying two months. We’re pretty sure by now you’re no longer surprised by these extended stays. A couple weeks of active cruising followed by a month or two still is suiting us quite right these […]
Wrap Up: Great Loop 2018 Cruising Season – Florida’s ICW
With our arrival to Jacksonville, we consider this 2018 Great Loop cruising season to be a wrap. When we set off from Miami in April, we had intentions of making it to the Chesapeake by summer to escape hurricane season. But fatigue from the months prior building up from Hurricane Irma, the submerged channel marker […]
