The Voyage of the Mighty Tenho: A bucket of stars

Sunday, May 5, 2013

A bucket of stars

In six short weeks, I’ll be back in the U.S. with the kids, with John just a few weeks behind. One foot is already home, as I start applying for jobs and looking into options…do we move back into our house? Or keep it rented and live in a small apartment or the boat until we have jobs? The other foot is still on the road in our floating home, exploring the Croatian islands and finding new anchorages each night. Tonight we found a dark secluded inlet between two islands, where the kids explored the shoreline in the dinghy while John and I enjoyed a drink in the cockpit. Before bed, we went out to admire the stars and the bioluminescent plankton in the water. We pulled up a bucket of water, and as the kids put their hands in it and swirled them around, Hugo exclaimed “it’s a bucket of stars!” What a perfect description of this past year together.

A bucket of stars

1 comment:

Anne UrbanekMay 7, 2013 at 2:06 AM
Wow! Maggie's hair got so long! Looks great!
Enjoy the rest of your time. :)
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John, Tessa, Hugo (12) and Maggie (9)

Having spent 10 years in DC, we moved onto the boat in June 2012, with the intent of sailing across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean for a year. As of June 2013, we've sailed from the U.S. (Annapolis, Maryland) to Bermuda, then to the Azores, to Lisbon and down the Atlantic coast of Portugal and Spain, through the Straits of Gibraltar, along the southern coast of Spain (with a quick trip to Morocco) to Ibiza, then Sicily, through the Corinth Canal and Greek islands, winter in Turkey, a few weeks in Israel, with a side trip to Egypt. After a month in the Adriatic in spring, we all sailed to the Azores, where mom, cat and kids left by airplane, leaving John and crew to bring the boat back home to the Chesapeake.