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Passage to Now: Day 15: Yoga On The Aft Deck
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Monday, June 30, 2014. Day 15: Yoga On The Aft Deck. Today the sea and the wind aligned with our westward course. As a. Result, a flatter boat led to a sweet yoga practice. The first week we were out we had NW wind with a SE swell, sailed. Upwind and heeled over so much that Down Dog was out of the question. Then for the past week we have had NW to NE wind with a NNE swell,. Sailing a reach and getting beat up with periodic steep waves on our. We are a f...
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Passage to Now: Day 20: Message In A Bottle, Land Ho! And a Hawaiian Sunset
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Saturday, July 5, 2014. Day 20: Message In A Bottle, Land Ho! And a Hawaiian Sunset. Carmen awoke today and, as usual, spent a bunch of time "waking up" in. Her bed while breakfast cooked. After an hour or so, she emerged with a tiny scroll of paper, tied with ribbon. She placed this message, plus a pencil, inside the empty wine bottle we had saved for this momentous occasion. Fast ride to our anchorage, a roadstead spot on the northwest shore of the isl...
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Passage to Now: January 2013
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Starry starry night.an attempt to capture it in words. Jen, First Mate S/V Northern Passage. Tuesday, January 22, 2013. Anchored Down in Tenacatita. It is a change from what we usually do, challenging to put on the brakes and maybe not even go anywhere. I am sure a lesson is to be learned here. Something about patience and being present. About being on a passage to Now. Sent from my iPad. Jen, First Mate S/V Northern Passage.
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Passage to Now: February 2013
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Thursday, February 21, 2013. Recently, after seven months aboard Northern Passage and with over 5,000 miles under our hull, I have found myself wondering what to call this sailing adventure. Is it a vacation? So, is it a dream? We have always said it is our dream to sail around the world. Is this what a dream manifested feels like? Or is a dream, by nature, no longer a dream once you are living it? None of these descriptions really ring true for me.
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Passage to Now: May 2014
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. I dont write with my hands. By Carmen, 11 years old. With all my heart. Coo Coo Crazy Carmen. Everyone is afraid of something. By Carmen Gordon-Rein, age 11. It thinks. I'll finally have a story to tell! Don't you want to fill those little papers' hearts with hope and joy and adventure? I know I do. But what ifthere were blank-page-people? Mean you dont have a story to tell. Coo Coo Crazy Carmen. Thursday, May 8, 2014. I sometime...
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Passage to Now: May 2013
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Friday, May 31, 2013. All the Comforts of Home Squeezed Onto Our 51' Sailboat. This particular afternoon, upon returning from a short sunset paddle, I look at the good ship Northern Passage and started to giggle - "Look at us, Bruce! We are so obviously a cruiser with kids! Here are some of the tell-tale signs of a family cruising sailboat (at least this is what OUR family cruiser looks like):. Notice the stuff stored inside - just like my van at home!
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Passage to Now: April 2013
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Wednesday, April 10, 2013. Sunday morning off La Ropa Beach in Bahia Zihuatanejo and all is well. The music of a local wedding reception stopped in the wee morning hours and now there are just the sounds of the birds, waves and couple pangas making the transit across the bay. The sun’s heat yet to build; it is a great time of day. The kids remain in their coma like sleep caused by full days of play in the sun and water. I will get the cockpit cleared and...
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Passage to Now: April 2014
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Carmen and I spent two days soaking up the energy in Sedona, where an ancient sea's spires rise upward in red rock magnificence, where the peaceful desert with agave and cactus meets oak creek canyon at about 4,500 feet with burbling creek water sliding over smooth rocks among towering pines, oak, aspen, maple. Today we arrived in Phoenix with a hug from Jim saying "the crew has arrived! Tomorrow will be a day of shopping and pro...
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Passage to Now: Day 19: Smooth Ride, Colorful Dorado, Comfortable Silence
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Friday, July 4, 2014. Day 19: Smooth Ride, Colorful Dorado, Comfortable Silence. Finally, in the final 24 hours of our 20-day voyage, we have settled. Into the smooth downwind sailing we have heard so much about from others. Who cruise west from the U.S. The larger swells that were knocking us. On our side subsided, leaving gentle swells that roll under us, giving. The boat a nice massage and peaceful back-to-front rocking motion. A. And pull us forward.
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Passage to Now: August 2013
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A family's quest for Adventure at sea and on land. Saturday, August 17, 2013. My Evolving Elusive "Home". Home is a concept I can't seem to put my finger on. Is it a place? Is it where the heart is? Is it where the skies are not cloudy all day? Is it true that there's no place like home? Or is it true that you can never go back home? Flash forward about 17 years and there I am moving 4,000 miles away to Alaska. For many years I told people I was living "out west," and when I returned to New England I...
