Turns out, the Next Thing is sailing. Or it might be 🤔

Sailing has always been on our radar, but not in a serious way; onebagging abroad or outfitting a van and traveling North America have both been more likely for a long while, but something just struck us recently about learning to sail, finding a boat, and going. 

Of course there are tiny parts of us that just want to buy a boat, learn as we go, and enjoy the ride. But I think our sharp awareness of things we don’t know and our understanding of just how spendy this could be are keeping us in check. So in exploring this, we’re taking it bit by bit, leaning a little more into it every passing week. We’re doing all the normal things. 

• Learning, as we can
• Talking with people who know
• Spending time around sailboats
• Readjusting the things we tune into, with an eye towards changing our lives
• Taking those little steps closer to being on the water – in a limited way at first, then more so
• Seeing what paths could bring us to this particular dream
• Getting solid about what we’d like, what the dream looks like

As we dip our toes and ankles in these waters, we’re starting to explore little bits of it. So far, it seems like this is what this could grow into:

Learn to sail along the coast, and away from the coast. At some point, acquire a boat; maybe moving to where that boat is. At some point after that, live aboard that boat. Gain more experience. Spend most of the time in anchorages around some warm coast, and then some point after that making a passage to another warm place that has a lot of neat anchorages.

We’ll see how all that goes. Maybe we do all that and more, maybe we come up against something that lets us know definitively this isn’t for us. Either way we’re in motion towards something amazing, and learning things and growing together. 

We’ll definitely write about it here.