Kate’s Blog #12
Family Christmas aboard Samsara. Clearly, we got a teensy bit behind on our posting, but we are determined to play catch up because life aboard Samsara, honestly, keeps getting better and better. Our motivation for posting sometimes gets swept under the rug in light of time spent exploring new places, the tedious process of navigating…
Kate’s Blog #11
Our train ride to the Copper Canyon Lured by the reputation of being the most beautiful train excursion in the world, Jeff and I went to great lengths to embark on “El Chepe”, the luxury train into the Copper Canyon that departs 3 times/week from the town of Los Mochis up into the state of…
Kate’s Blog #10
Beauty and the Bees…. In early October, I made a quick overnight trip back to Orange County for a business matter. I returned swiftly to our home base at Marina La Cruz in the northern most part of the Banderas Bay very near Puerto Vallarta anxious to continue our adventure. It seemed like COVID was…
Kate’s Blog #9
It was hot here in Puerto Vallarta, really hot and steamy as a Chinese pork bao. Then hurricane Nora brought torrents of water, rain, thunder and lightning. We were tied down tight and got by with no damage, but we witnessed two sailboats that did not fare with as much luck. In front of our…
Kate’s Blog #8
PUERTO VALLARTA TO ZIHUATANEJO…and back In early May, we launched on a mission to repair our sail drive, and what we thought would be a relatively easy fix, turned into a month of Samsara being on the hard ( out of the water) and us moving into a nearby hotel, the Westin, for what seemed…
Kate’s Blog #7
If you have clicked on the “we are currently” tab on our website, you can see that we have lately spent a good deal of time in one spot, Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. In fact, you can see that we haven’t moved for quite a while. If there is one lesson I have gleaned from our…
Kate’s Blog #6
At the end of a dreadful, oppressive, sober, year where a deadly pandemic with the same name as a Mexican beer, the “corona virus”, wrecked painful and hopeless havoc on our world, and with the anticipation of an effective vaccine on the horizon, I can imagine the cosmetic chemist at Chanel responsible for the formulation…
Kate’ Blog #5
I woke up this morning with the opposite of writer’s block…I had writer’s eruption!!! My mind was literally teeming , bursting, swimming with thoughts of all kinds: love, life, fear of finding out, fear of being found out, achievement and failure, confusion and clarity, yearning and contentment, pride , regret….all at the same time. I…
Kate’s Blog #4
Unquestionably, a bittersweet moment to leave Friday Harbor this afternoon and say so long to the beautiful San Juan Islands. Knowing that we had reached the end to our adventure in Northern Washington brought back memories of chartering with our kids in the Caribbean and waking up on the day we had to leave, despite…
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