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This morning we lifted the dinghy, secured items on the deck and got things put away in preparation for finally leaving the dock! Braden and Emma took a morning drive to scope out the anchorage to see how crowded it was. We fired up the engines only to discover unexpected
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Before we left the boat in June there was a lot of work to get it ready to sit for months in the sweltering summer heat - vacuum sealing clothes, storing cushions, taking down sails, getting rid of food and the list goes on and on. Now that we'
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Our boat doesn't go back into the water until Sunday. In the meantime we've been checking off some boat projects, visiting some of our favorite places and doing lots of swimming.
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After months away we are finally back in Grenada! These last couple months have been full of lots of highs and lows. We had fun catching up with our friends, the girls learned some tough lessons about relationships and we visited a lot of really amazing places. After two very
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Emma is the only one in our family who like sushi, so I wasn't sure how it was going to go when she found a new sushi restaurant and wanted us all to go for lunch. It is one of the places that the sushi comes by on
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If we weren't traveling full time our girls would be in school, but since they're not we're taking advantage of visiting all the busy places during the week. It's one of the perks of homeschooling. This week we did two field trips.
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Our map got an update today. Some states were filled in. Some states got updated pictures. Oh... New Mexico. You are going to drive me crazy.
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Our summer roadtrip took us through 13 states: South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska and Iowa. Whew! Emma and Olivia visited 7 states for the first time: Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah. Braden and I visited 4 states for the
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This is probably our last (and 15th) National Park/Monument/Recreation Area on our summer roadtrip. We are all pretty exhausted at this point, so our visit was a short hike, a couple overlooks, Junior Ranger badges and we called it done. Afterward we had lunch at a diner with
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There are two things I am not a super fan of (1) jet skis (2) UTVs. UTVing through the Sand Flats in Moab was something Braden really wanted to do on this trip. Three of the four of us loved it. I gladly took on the role of photographer/videographer
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We almost skipped Arches National Park. I figured once you've seen one arch you've seen them all. It seemed pretty boring. We're staying in Moab for a couple days because Emma and I want to go to Canyonlands National Park and Braden and Olivia