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In my fall 2020 book review, I’m sharing my thoughts on the books I’ve read lately: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George, The Switch by Beth O’Leary, The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett, Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, Becoming by Michelle Obama, The Seven Sisters by Lucida Riley, Verity by Colleen Hoover, and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab.
Six months after leaving our sailboat in Nicaragua in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, Garrett has returned. Read about how he prepared for this trip, where he plans to cruise to next, and why I didn’t go along this time here!
It has been twelve weeks since Garrett and I returned to the United States from Nicaragua on a repatriation flight. Our sailboat, Thisldu, is still in Nicaragua, where she will be until we can safely return and move her down to Costa Rica. Learn more about our future cruising plans, how we came to live in Charleston, and what the transition from cruising to regular life (*as regular as life can be during a pandemic) has been like in this post.
I’ve finished seven books over the past couple of months: If I Never Met You by Mhairi McFarlane, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub, Beach Read by Emily Henry, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander, The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman, The Guest List by Lucy Foley, and Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Here are my thoughts on each!
Hello and welcome back to the Meet the Cruisers series! I’m excited to introduce you to Kevin and Carla, the co-captains of S/V Gargoyle, and their two crew cats, Dean and Sam! Carla and Kevin, along with eleven other people on six different boats, made up our Nicaraguan quarantine bubble. Garrett and I had just arrived into Marina Puesta del Sol in Aserradores, Nicaragua when the rest of Central America started shutting down their borders to land, sea, and air travel due to Covid-19; the Gargoyle crew had already been there for about a month. In fact, they are still there today. Read how they got their start with sailing, how they’re funding this adventure, their advice for this lifestyle, how their plans have been affected by Covid-19, and more!
Now that we’ve finally made it back from Nicaragua to the United States, I’m sharing where Garrett and I are now calling home and what’s next on the docket for our cruising plans.
After being stranded in Nicaragua for two months, Garrett and I are excited to announce that we are finally on U.S. soil! Read this post to learn a little bit more about what we’ve been going through and what traveling during the pandemic was like.
Garrett and I have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support in response to our situation and endeavor to get home. Thank you. We’ve also received a lot of questions in response to last week’s blog post and two news articles, so we put together this FAQ to answer the most common questions surrounding our current situation. We hope this helps!