Adventure 2010

I can't even remember the first time I was on a boat.  Supposedly, my mom was on my grandparents' boat when she was pregnant with me, so it must've been early on in my life.

When growing up, summers were spent in one of two places: Michigan with my cousins, or on the Pacific Ocean on my grandparents' sailboat, the Ilikai II, a Panda 40. 

Eventually my grandparents' sold their boat, and for a few years, our boating adventures were limited to charters.  Then, two years ago, there was the debacle that was my Dad buying a boat while my Mom was out of town (they got out of it).  Finally, last year, they ended up getting a great price (yay faltering economy) on a Grand Banks 42 Classic, Change of Latitude.

In 2009 I spent about 5 weeks on Change of Latitude; 3 in the Summer and 2 in the Winter.  And now I'm headed back for round 2.  Will be aboard COL from July 15th-August 3rd.  Expect many pictures when I return.  Before that, you can follow progress at the blog my dad finally set up here.  And if you are curious, you can follow my Aunt and Uncle's trip around the world in their catamaran here.

Hermiting

People who know me well know that I am actually quite a private person.  Sure, I'm loud and make inappropriate jokes when in a crowd, but I tend to hold the important things close to my heart, without letting many people know the depths of my feelings or emotions.  Especially the things that are important to me.  I don't like to feel so vulnerable.  Vulnerable is scary.  Vulnerable is also why I've been super-moody for the past several weeks.  So please accept my apology if I've blown you off recently.  Or ignored your IM, or phone call.  I've kinda just felt like being alone.  Things need to be taken care of on the home front, and I'm hoping being relatively incommunicado from the world on a boat for a few weeks will help with that.  Cheers.