Three photographs and their stories, all from our first cruise
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Will I Feel Lonely
Do you wonder if you’ll feel lonely while cruising? Everyone does sometimes. Here are ideas that help.
🎧Templating: How and Why
Creating a new horizontal surface in thin air on the boat is hard. Less hard when you template first.
Peanut Butter Cookies
Peanut butter cookies are a yummy sweet treat that are easy to bake on a boat.
🎧The Soup To Nuts Kind of Provisioning
It’s like regular grocery shopping – with a twist. Learn why your worries about that first stock up on board are both real AND unfounded.
🎧Collections
When a jar of shells (or a bag of sea beans) is a time travel machine, it reminds me that even on a small boat, indulging your passions matters.
Orange Cranberry Coleslaw
Cruisers say their plans are written in sand . . . at low tide. You never know what a day may bring. We’ve learned to be prepared for anything! One winter, problems with our engine led to a partial rebuild. Once complete, we did some short day trips and then decided to do a two-day trip to get more […]
🎧My Favorite Way to Stay on Budget
Letting time lapse between grocery trips can be challenging – and intensely monetarily rewarding. There’s a crazy simple way to rein in your spending
A Clean Boat Means Less Stress
An emergency on the water taught me the importance of always keeping a clean boat. You never know when you’ll need to move in a hurry.
🎧Simple Consumerism
A random popup ad on my social media feed turned into a soul-searching decision about a new jacket.