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Art, Travel, & Everything Else

Read about our adventures as a family as we travel near and far.
We're currently building a shipping container home as well -- so follow along!

October 31, 2018

Trying to Catch Up

I am a much better artist and general helper than I am a blogger.  When we lived on a boat in the Caribbean it was much easier, at the end of a week to sit down with a glass of…

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January 23, 2018

2018 New Year Fresh Start

I love January and the start of a new year. I feel as if I have a clean slate. My first order of business was organization, file cleaning, and gathering taxes for our accountant. Next on the list was my…

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June 2, 2017

A Visit To Container Port Group

Our containers are picked out, inspected, and all stacked together for Doug from GR Transport to bring them to us this upcoming week!  This has been a long time coming and we couldn’t be happier to finally have this stage…

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May 30, 2017

Home Shopping

Today we are going to go pick out our final four shipping containers for our house. When we bought our first one to store all our stuff in we were not able to pick it out, we were at the…

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March 5, 2017

Stay tuned tweaking my new website and blog.

During our travels through the Caribbean we had lots of time to talk about and design our new shipping container home. Our initial design was larger but after being rejected from several banks, mortgage companies, and credit unions we decided…

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May 26, 2014

Puerto Rico and Family Time

Most of our time in Puerto Rico was spent waiting and sometimes worrying. We fist arrived in San Juan Bay to get parts for our prop then we sailed to Fajardo and waited for my family to arrive. After they…

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April 27, 2014

Crossing the Mona Passage

Well we waited and planned and thanks to the weather expertise of Stephen we picked the perfect window to make our way across the Mona Passage. I for one am not excited about making any passage, and I’ve heard some…

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April 26, 2014

Santo Domingo

Luperon to Santo Domingo We hung out in Luperon on the boat and in the town while Stephen and Natasha went to visit Santo Domingo and Santiago, this way our boat always had occupants. Luperon is not a large town…

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