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We Finally Stopped Rushing… Life Aboard Got Quiet
After nearly two years of always moving toward the next island, the next passage, the next boat project, or the next deadline… life aboard Big Lost finally got quiet. After a week of almost everyone onboard being sick, slowing down was exactly what we needed. Our cruising friends are starting to sc...
We Almost Left Tahiti… I’m Glad We Stayed
We were almost ready to leave Tahiti when our friends on SV Palarran pulled into the anchorage—and suddenly, we had a very good reason to stay. Cruising friendships are unpredictable. You never really know when your paths will cross again, so when the kids’ friends showed up, we changed our plans a...
We Wanted a Different Life… This Is Where It Took Us
We left Idaho looking for a different life. We had no idea that decision would eventually take our family across the Caribbean, through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific Ocean and all the way to French Polynesia. This week, the weather kept us sitting still in Tahiti—and for once, that gave us a...
Some Problems Follow You Across Oceans
We inherited our alternator problems when we bought Big Lost in Florida—and somehow, they've traveled with us through the Caribbean, across the Panama Canal, over the Pacific, and all the way to French Polynesia. We've fixed things. Broken things. Learned things. Taken steps forward and a...
We Came to Tahiti to Fix One Problem…
After waiting out 30-knot winds in Cook’s Bay, Moorea, we finally get the weather window we need to make the short trip to Tahiti — where we’re hoping to finally get some answers about an electrical problem that has been following us for months. But first, there’s fishing line wrapped around our an...
We Needed to Leave… But the Weather Had Other Plans
We needed to get Big Lost to Tahiti. After dealing with alternator problems off and on since Saint Martin, there’s an alternator specialist in Tahiti who can finally help us figure out what’s going on. But sometimes the smartest decision you can make while cruising is deciding not to go. With 25–3...
We Never Expected to Find Family Here
When we left home to sail around the world, we thought the hardest part would be leaving our family behind. What we never expected was finding another family halfway around the world. After arriving in Moorea, we finally slow down enough to enjoy everything this incredible island has to offer—from...
We Came for Paradise We Found Something Better
We crossed an ocean chasing paradise. What we found was something even more valuable. For months, our family had been working toward this moment. Crossing the Pacific meant weather windows, long passages, constant planning, and the relentless pursuit of the next destination. Every mile brought us ...
We Came for the Sailing… We Stayed for the Friendships
We thought sailing around the world would be all about the destinations. The turquoise lagoons. The remote islands. The adventure. But somewhere along the way, we realized the places weren't what changed us the most. It was the people. In this episode, we spend our final days in beautiful T...
We Thought Success Looked Like This We Were Wrong
We crossed an ocean dreaming about places like Fakarava. World-famous dives, crystal-clear lagoons, black pearls, and remote islands were everything we had imagined. But somewhere along the way, we realized this journey was changing more than our location. It was quietly changing the way we measured...
We Came for Fakarava’s Wall of Sharks — But Left With Something More
We crossed the Pacific dreaming about one incredible experience: Fakarava's legendary Wall of Sharks. Every year around the June full moon, thousands of groupers gather in Fakarava, French Polynesia, to spawn. Where thousands of fish gather, hundreds of sharks follow, creating one of the most f...
Life In the Tuamotus Isn’t As Easy As It Looks
The Tuamotus are some of the most beautiful islands we've ever visited—but living this far from everything comes with challenges most people never see. In this episode, we explore life in the remote atolls of French Polynesia. From provisioning and planning an overnight passage, difficult ancho...
This Is Why We Crossed The Pacific
After crossing the Pacific Ocean and spending weeks in the Marquesas, we finally arrived at one of the places we've dreamed about for years: the Tuamotus. In this episode, we leave Nuku Hiva behind and make the 500 nautical mile passage to Raroia Atoll. After carefully timing our arrival throu...
We Weren’t Ready to Leave Yet | Life in the Marquesas
After returning to Taiohae Bay on Nuku Hiva, we thought we'd only be staying a few more days before continuing west toward the Tuamotus Islands. The route was planned. The boat was nearly ready. All we needed was the right weather window. What started as an unexpected delay quickly turned into ...
Life After Landfall | Exploring the Marquesas Following Our Pacific Crossing
After crossing more than 3,000 miles of Pacific Ocean, we finally had a chance to slow down and enjoy life in the Marquesas Islands. But life after landfall isn't just tropical anchorages and waterfalls. There were still boat projects to finish, new places to explore, and old friends to reunite...
Crossing the Pacific Changed Our Family
After months of preparation and 24 days at sea since leaving Panama, we finally crossed the Pacific Ocean and arrived in Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. This crossing pushed our family physically and mentally in ways difficult to explain. Interrupted sleep, endless sail chang...
Somehow… This Became Normal | Pacific Crossing
Two weeks into our Pacific crossing and something unexpected started happening… Life out here began to feel normal. The watches, the meals, the routines, the exhaustion, the quiet moments in between — somewhere along the way the Pacific stopped feeling so unfamiliar. In this episode we share what da...
Eventually, Life in the Pacific Felt Normal
Eventually, life in the Pacific started to feel normal. After more than a week at sea crossing the Pacific Ocean, the routines of offshore life slowly began to settle in. Night watches, sail changes, repairs, fishing, cooking, exhaustion, and family life all became part of our everyday rhythm somew...
This Is It. We’re Crossing the Pacific
We’re finally doing it. After months of preparation, we’re leaving the Galápagos and setting sail across the Pacific Ocean — 3,000 nautical miles to the Marquesas. This is the moment everything has been building toward. What started as a dream is now reality. With no turning back, we begin one of t...
This Is Where the Galápagos Changed for Us
We had already experienced parts of the Galápagos… but this is where it started to feel different. After leaving San Cristobal, we made our way to Isabela Island — the largest island in the Galápagos. What we found here wasn’t just incredible wildlife, but an experience that felt completely differen...
We Gave Up Everything… This Is What It’s Actually Like
But beyond the highlights, this episode is about something deeper — what it actually feels like to live this life, move from place to place, and experience the world together as a family. This is what we traded everything for. ⚓ Follow the journey: YouTube: Instagram: TikTok: 🛟 Support the jou...
Hours Before We Left… This Happened
We finally left Panama and started our journey toward the Galápagos… but it didn’t happen the way we planned. After weeks of waiting on visas, everything came down to a narrow window to check out of the country and begin our Pacific crossing. What should have been a straightforward departure quickly...
We’re Ready to Cross the Pacific… But We Can’t Leave
We’re ready to cross the Pacific… but we can’t leave. Right now we’re stuck in Panama, anchored in a relentless rolly anchorage, waiting on one thing: the kids’ visas. It’s the final hurdle keeping us from pointing the bow west—and every day we sit here, the pressure builds. But we’re not wasting t...