Couvreux family featured among five who left it all to travel the world with their children.
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My husband was an architect, and then he wasn’t. I was supposed to become a famous journalist, but I didn't. Our choice to live and sail on a sailboat with our two children for 10 years had us hopscotching and dancing around our careers during that chunk of time....Could we, should we, have expected more of our two boys?
Read MoreA Gaggle of Cruising Kids
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They were one grand, wet, rambunctious, laughing amoeba of towheads, redheads, arms, and legs. They cackled in accented English, French, and Spanish, swimming and jumping helter-skelter.
Read MoreWe Stopped the World and Got Off, and It Changed our Lives
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Two nights at sea, my husband's glasses overboard, a bit of inclement weather, and our decision was made. We were hooked. We would buy a sailboat, and sail the world with our children. And we did.
Read MoreHopping On and Off with Huffington Post
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How We Stopped the World and Got Off for 10 Years, and Why It Changed Our Lives
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No, No Life Jackets on Those Kids
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"No life jackets on those kids?" Yes, that's right. No life jackets on those kids. My Huffington Post blog entry "We Sailed Across the Ocean…" from November 11, 2015, recounting our 30-day trans-Atlantic crossing on our sailboat with an infant and a toddler, featured several photos of my children onboard, "sans" life jackets. Some readers were taken aback and posted a comment of surprise and concern. This is not the first time I have had such remarks from—and here's where I must remind myself—amateurs, weekend recreational boaters, non-sailors, or at least non full-time "cruisers."
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Cowabunga and the Camino, Kindred Spirits
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Blisters gone. Swollen ankle—subsided. A few items lost, some new friends found. Satisfaction guaranteed. Thirty-five days for an adventure. Thirty-five days powered only by my own pedestrian momentum, only my feet pushing me from Point A to Point B, beginning to end, 500 miles across a country—just because.
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