15 Seconds of Fame: Chicago Tribune profile

Back in September, a friend and former colleague of Sara’s named Erin Gifford reached out to ask if we would be interested in sharing our sailing adventures with any media outlets. Erin is a talented freelance travel writer, so it was no surprise when a short time later she shared that the Chicago Tribune was interested in her story idea.

We really enjoyed telling Erin about some our favorite destinations and the ups and downs of the cruising lifestyle, and then we anxiously awaited the news about the pending article’s print date. Earlier this month, we got the good news that the article was going live on ChicagoTribune.com and would appear a short time later in the papers’s Sunday print edition travel section.

Our first cruising season: 2018-2019 recap

While we'll be sailing around the Grenadines and Grenada until November and the end of hurricane season, our island hopping cruising season is over for now.

Here's a recap of our 2018-2019 cruising season:

Our 8-month and 3,200 nm trek from Annapolis, Maryland to Grenada, West Indies

And so it begins...

Well, we've done it, we quit our jobs and sold our home and are going sailing!

We bought a boat!

Nope, this isn't a re-post from three years ago when we bought our first sailboat, Houd Vast. We actually bought a new (to us) boat, a 2005 Hallberg-Rassy 37 named Borealis.

The word Borealis is Latin for "of the north" and since we hail from the northern state of Wisconsin we plan to sail her under that same name.