Well it finally happened: we slipped the lines for the last time this morning from Van Isle Marina where SIRI has been either on the hard or in the marina for the past 3 years!

As I write this, I am enjoying a rare calm, mostly sunny, warm-ish day on the bow of SIRI at our marina slip in Sidney, B.C., Canada, with DTessi snuggled up on a blanket at my feet. We're just shy of two months since we moved aboard full-time on the boat which has somehow defied the logic of time by both flying-by and dragging on as if we're running a marathon of unknown distance. Sailing (motoring) across the Strait of Juan de Fuca bound for Olympia, Washington, a few days