It’s just a number, but 100 days seemed worth celebrating somehow. There were no fireworks, but there were Skittles and the last pieces of Rum Cake after dinner!
It’s hard to capture the many things that make a sabbatical-sized vacation different from a vacation. After all, if today were a vacation day it wouldn’t have started with school (the kids were great today, plowing through more than average in two separate sessions). And a vacation typically doesn’t involve baking bread during bad weather (sunny, but gusting 25 knots in the anchorage). But we did get off the boat, enjoying a family beach walk on the Atlantic side, and on a second trip to land we met Jean who lives with her husband in the “Sand Castle” built on its own little bay – it really is a castle and is their seasonal dream home-away-from-home in California.
Our trip has been less about our usual blitz of vacation activities that happen on long weekends or an occasional week away and more about the home-away-from-home adventures made possible by living in a portable house, or in this case in a floating house. The cooking, repairs, school work, and chores of home all come with us, but we unlocked plenty of quality family time on amazing islands and underwater, meeting some great people along the way. On the occasions when supplies have been low or the weather was sour, taking a vacation from our vacation begins to sound appealing. But I think the four of us are happy we’ve taken the extra leap of faith and effort to make it out here. Thanks again to Reid and Rheta White for entrusting us with Amel, the floating house which made it all possible!
Fun Afloat 