Alright, so I know its been a while since we’ve put anything up here, but lets be honest you really don’t want to hear about how we go to work and sit in an office, or work two jobs to put a little heft put back into our wallets. It all seems a little to boring and entirely to ordinary to spawn much of interesting tale. So to bring you back up to speed I’m going to list a few of the highlights of the past Summer-Fall-Winter.

This was the first day it was cold enough to wear pants, and I think the first day we had clothes on in our boat. We were usually naked… It’s much mo’ better the feel the breeze all over in the hot hot summer air.

We got a new head, and I have to say, it’s the best $$$ spent on the entire boat. Unfortunately, it took our old one exploding to convince us it was necessary. Needless to say we learned why they call it BLACK water. Black, black, stinky, nasty,two bottles worth of Clorox kind of black water.

Admittedly its hasn’t been all work. We got out almost every weekend to explore the keys on our ever improving sailing machine. Most trips have been just us, but we have had one or two with good friends and those are always the best. Even if it was to get away and go spearfishing for the day we leapt at any chance to break free.

We caught this big guy for Thanks giving dinner on a piece of turkey wing dangled off our boat with a hand line. The trip before Bri fed us by catching fish with a lure she made of a bare hook and tin foil. (Yeah, if you look close you’ll notice my fly is open, but I’m telling you when you’re hungry and the fish bit, you drop what your doing and come running.)

Our latest BIG adventure was a trip home for the holidays. We stayed for 2 weeks and it was a blast. In Southern Utah we hiked to pictographs. Then… Up north…..

We skied. It felt so good to get back into the backcountry and pass some miles under our skins. The tropics are fun and to be honest upon returning I can admit to missing the mangroves and crystal clear seas, but the mountains still call to me. Sitting on a snow covered peak and looking at all the clean vast wilderness around you is restoring in a way you can only understand by standing there in you own shoes.

Did I mention that the boat is looking good and we’re getting ready to set off the central America in the coming weeks. Oh well, that’s the main reason that I’m writing is to say that although things in Key West have been great and we’ve met some radical friends that we’ll miss dearly. The call of the unknown and the urge to explore can no longer be repressed. The time has come for us to cast off our lines and say hello to blue horizons that stretch beyond our vision. So come back often and We’ll try to get at least a couple of posts up every week, or at least every time we get to a marina that has access to the interweb.

Also, I just wanted to send out a quick thanks to some people that we are forever indebted to. Although it seems all the people we meet have helped us in small and large ways I need to thank our families for all the help and support and also Felix and Helen Legare for their constant help and willingness to help our a couple of young kids that don’t have much but dreams and just enough fight to get to the end of the yellow brick road. Without you guys we never would have left out safe little nest.