Feb
07
2010
There’s an email list for parents of children who are considering cruising. We’re a funny and eclectic bunch. You get questions about Personal Flotation Devices (and why the heck can the UK create a fabulous kid’s PFD with integral harness and the USA just will not?), questions about homeschooling, questions about all the crazy details [...]
Tags: cruising, family, living aboard, musings, Sailing Kids
May
04
2009
It’s been a busy time here at Excellent Adventure. I’ll break it all down over time, but for now, we’ve had this rush of free publicity. A reporter from Parents magazine, one from SAIL, and another opportunity that I’m keeping quiet about for now, but is TV based. Woah. I’ve also been asked to contribute [...]
Tags: Blog, Education, musings
Feb
04
2009
This is what my mornings are looking like, now that I’m unemployed.
Tags: kayaking, musings
Feb
03
2009
Graciously, Jason agreed to spend his 36th birthday in the presence of greatness.
Because the internet is rapidly making the world a smaller place, and because I used to row on the mighty Califa Rowing Team, coached by Kathryn Robinson, and Kathy knew Roz from when they rowed on a Greek Trireme, and because I blog, [...]
Tags: intrepid, musings, oceans, rowing, Roz Savage
Oct
15
2008
If you’re paying attention (always a question, since there’s so much going on these days in the world), the piracy thing is getting a lot of media attention lately. And people are genuinely freaked out. Everyone loves Jack Sparrow, but when faced with the reality of piracy, that there are scary folks out there on [...]
Tags: blog action day, Doctors Without Borders, musings, piracy, poverty, Spirituality, Thich Nhat Hanh
Mar
08
2008
When I have gotten older, and the boys have grown up and moved on to adventures of their own, I want to be Paul Watson’s henchman.
Y‘know, people talk all the time about how “when I am an old woman, I shall wear purple“, and they expect you to get all old and eccentric and [...]
Tags: Environment, musings, sea shepherd
Mar
06
2008
Lonely Planet, whom I adore, sends out a newsletter called “the Comet”. The issue in my inbox right now is called “Dreaming and Planning.” And there’s a lot to think about there. Here’s the quote they start with:
The pleasures of travel don’t begin and end on the plane. Dreaming and planning, hitting the road, [...]
Tags: musings