We are only three weeks from heading back to Utah. Kelli leaves August 29th and I leave August 31st. Here is a little video for you of what we are up to on this fine Saturday. Tomorrow we are both picking up shifts for other people so we are only out for a little bit today. Joshua
Tag - Sailing
New Arrival
Look who showed up... Kelli made it up here after us being apart just over two months. She flew in Tuesday June 4th at 9:45 after a little delay in Ketchican. I picked her up at the airport and she met Northern Light for the first time about 10:00. I took the next day off work so I could show her […]
Settling In
My early 20s (and mid-20s) was filled with lots of moving. I moved from home to Arizona for college at 18, back home, then into a farm house where I worked, into a single-wide mobile home next to my parents, off to my sister's in Truth or Consequences, NM, then to Leadivlle, Colorado at 24, Avon, […]
North - Part IV
Day three I awoke early, made breakfast and coffee, and took a look at the manual for the autopilot. There was a magnetometer calibration procedure I wanted to try. The magnetometer is the electronic compass the autopilot steers by. I looked through all the settings in the autopilot, fiddled with […]
North - Part III
I woke up to a nice morning still anchored where I dropped the hook by Whitney Island sometime near 6:30. Being new to everything still, I wasn’t sure how good of a spot I picked but it seemed to be good enough as I hadn’t drifted at all. The standard anchoring protocol is to put out seven times […]
North - Part II
My flight from Seattle to Petersburg on Alaska Airlines is referred to as the "Milk Run." It makes multiple stops along the way at small airports and several places you just stay on the airplane rather than getting off. We stopped in Ketchikan and Wrangell before stopping in Petersburg […]
North
Big changes. I'm sitting in a little cafe a six-minute walk from the harbor I'm living in. My laundry is tumbling next door in the local laundromat. My location is Juneau, Alaska. How did I end up here? So, I've been thinking about a change in jobs for a while and applied for a medevac job close […]