Yes! We have left Santa Cruz! OMG! So crazy! ……

We’ve been scrambling to meet up with our friends before we leave.

Well, sicknesses of all kinds have been going around. Matt’s right hand man got sick. I have been fighting something yucky off & on this last week. And this has left Matt to go into major super-hero mode! -Getting the last cleaning & fixing up of our house done.

Yep, we are out of the house & on the boat!

Yep! We are getting ready to get out of our house & onto the boat!

Yes, only a month to go before we are sailing down the coast on MerSea!

People have been asking about the places where we’ll be stopping before Mexico this autumn.

Before I get down to what we’ve been up to in the last week, I’m going to “get real” about a few things.

This last week, my sister Brynley, her husband Colin & their daughter Ayla came out to stay for a week! We had a blast!

Today’s blog is a quick, little blog.

We spent the last week in the house, getting more & more stuff out of it.

As much are we are lucky to actually have a slip in Santa Cruz, we can’t get out of the north harbor until several weeks from now. So we are using this time to stay & work on the boat.

In this past week, we took care of issues that needed to be dealt with on land…..

Yep, we have less than 3 months until blast off! We have been going non-stop trying to get everything done.

This week it’s a short & sweet blog post. -Mainly because it’s summer & we are starting to really crack down on boat projects.

That’s right! We made it out to our backyard this weekend for 2 nights!

What kind of lens are you looking through?

Well, we have been hustling for a while now. It’s hard to stop & relax though, because there is always stuff to do.

As we slog along through projects, it’s sometimes hard to remember why we are doing all of this “extra” work.

Yes! It feels like we are finally making some progress in all areas -boat, sailing, home, paperwork…..