The Plan

I have been getting a lot of questions about where we are going to go and how long we are going to be gone so hopefully this will answer some of those questions.

The plan at this point is to sail north through British Columbia towards Alaska for the summer.  We will come back at the end of the summer and store our boat for about 8 to 10 months while we travel around the states in our camper.  After the state side adventure we will head back out on the boat and start our around the world sailing trip. 

We will follow the wind and weather patterns and make a pacific loop for our first leg of the trip.  This loop will take us down the coast through Mexico and Central America to Panama where we will turn right and head  to the Galapagos Islands.  After the Galapagos we will continue the loop out into the Pacific to the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands and on to New Zealand.  We will probably continue to Australia then up South East Asia and back across the Pacific to the Northwest. 

We are guessing that the Pacific loop will take us about 5 years after which we will head back down the coast and through the Panama Canal where we will explore the Caribbean, the Bahamas, and up the East Coast of the US where we will head across the Atlantic Ocean to Europe and the Mediterranean until we run into Turkey.  After that...who knows??? 

The plan has one important thing that we will do our best to remember...the plan is "loose". Our only real restrictions are that we will need to travel with the prevailing wind and weather patterns and that we have to enjoy ourselves. The nice thing about the way we are planning on traveling is that if we don't like our surroundings, we can pull up the anchor and move!