GlobalHopper Travels

It has been an insane few months. We have not had the time or energy to update this blog till now.

Let me start by confirming that Miki and I are both alive, we had a few close calls in the last few months, but we are just now getting to the point that we have had a few days to collect ourselves. Today for the first time in months we woke a little late, made coffee, baked some muffins and just took a breath.

Well, we sold the RV and have switched to a sailboat! Project "Wheels to Keels" actually happened after ten years of planning, working with a singular end goal and a few side paths called life.

So, let us introduce you to S/V GlobalHopper our new home on the waters of the world. She is a 46 foot French catamaran, even came with the prerequisite escargot tongs.

In the last few months both of us almost died, sailed the boat more then 1400nm from the Caribbean to Florida, lost Kodiak the most awesome dog, drove a trailer with all we own from California to Florida and did time in the boatyard. Needless to say it has been a little overwhelming.

I'll be working on back filling the blog and documenting what happened.

~Keath

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Saturday night after a really rough week we needed to let Kodiak go.
He had been suffering from pneumonia, diabetes and a handful of other problems.

At the end Kodiak was peaceful, calm and Mikiko held him and let him know that he was loved by all.

Please remember all the good times you had with him and laugh and enjoy those memories.

Kodiak was a very smart dog that amazed us with his antics. When he was just a year old I really wanted the two of us to join search and rescue. So in the process of teaching him to search for his toy he turned the tables on us and hid his toy and made us look for it, this was all good except he kept glancing over at the toy to make sure it was still there.

If he didn't get an answer from one of us that met his desire then he would attempt to get a different answer from the other. He was very expressive and everyone was a little set back at the range of emotion he was able to produce with his eye brows, not to mention his head flip.

Kodiak will be missed by all that had the opportunity to know him.

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Cancer changes everything...

Continue reading "Setting a goal to make it through" »

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We had worked hard on creating a plan that would take over two years to transition away from the safety and comfort of stability.

Continue reading "Surrender" »

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Some point along the line Mikiko and I got on to a path that we had not planned, and was the exact opposite of our original intentions.

Continue reading "So, how did we end up here..." »

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