Chapter 189: The One With The Amusement Park
Everybody loves an amusement park, right? The rides, the noise. What an experience. Except when you're on passage. Then, not so much. We have, however, successfully left New Zealand behind!…
Chapter 188: The One With More Electrons
Still waiting on the weather, here in New Zealand, where it's...windy. Very windy. And not warm. Because winter. But, there's hope for a window tomorrow. More on that at the…
Chapter 187: Where There’s Smoke… (And the Art of Waiting for Fiji)
If you’ve been following our journey, you know that sailing life is a beautiful mix of tropical dreams, community connection, and... total mystery. Our latest week in Whangārei started on…
Chapter 186: She’s Dead, Jim.
First, Happy Mothers' Day! The title of this post refers not to that. The featured image is of our mothers out with us sailing on Lake Erie years ago. But,…
Chapter 185: Stay or go??? Wild Weather and Swirling Seas…
May day has arrived in New Zealand! We awoke this morning to the sound of drumming coming from the Canopy Bridge. Annually, the Whangarei Morris Dancers host a “dancing up…
Chapter 184: One With The List
We're back, baby! After 4 months off the boat, we are back on board Meraviglia and prepping to head out. In the time away, I learned a few things. First,…
Chapter 183: Back in Aotearoa, The Land of the Long White Cloud
We are officially back in the land of the Kiwis or Aotearoa, the Land of the Long White Cloud!! We had an amazing five months on our visit back to…