Category: sv evi
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Three generations backpacking around SE Asia
Oh, what a marvelous time! Tomu (12), Jade (10) and Luz (almost 8) are so easy to travel with right now. They rarely complain about anything. They are easy-going and adaptable. “How long is our train ride? Where are we going next? What are we doing tomorrow?” They ask and just accept the answers. They…
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Siem Reap, Cambodia
We needed to leave Thailand to reset our visas, so we flew directly from Phuket to Siem Reap. Our taxi driver told us that Siem Reap means “Thailand defeated” in Khmer because of an ancient battle won there. Even now there is fighting on the border between Thailand and Cambodia — he told us Thailand…
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76 years young
Ma Chin arrived to Phuket on January 22nd, 2026. So far she has come to visit us once a year on sv evi. This time I drove a rental car in Phuket traffic to pick her up at the airport. It took 5 hours round trip — whew! We had planned to go out to…
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December happenings
We spent a few days buddy boating with SV Sunrise II and SV Nebo. Koen on Nebo is a professional chef — nice to hang out with one of those. We had a potluck dinner on evi (17 people — new record for dinner!), and Koen brought paella and garlic prawns. Yum! Jade turned 10!…
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Family Time!
My brother Weston, his partner Justine, and their two kiddos Jasper (age 3.5) and Mira (age 23 months) arrived to Phuket on Saturday, three days after we did. I went to pick them up at the airport, and we arrived back to the beach by evi just at sunset. We enjoyed a mellow week at…
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Langkawi to Phuket, Thailand
Our trip north from Langkawi to Phuket involved 4 days of motor-sailing tight to the wind. Unfortunately, we had pretty rainy weather, and lots of wind (20-25 knots). The sails were lumpy: the first sail Tomu and Luz both threw up, and the second sail our bimini finally gave up the ghost and shredded in…
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Luxury mom vacation in Wainiha, Kauai
Taylor is my bonafide mermaid friend. She’s a spear fisher, surfer, free diver, wing foiler, artist, kid magnet, and chef. She’s also humble, kind, funny, and generous. When we parted ways in Fiji last summer, we both cried, along with Luz. We had been talking about trekking in Nepal for her 40th…then she decided she’d…
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When the cat’s away…
We met Taylor, Brad and 4yo Rex while they were cruising their boat, Pangea, in New Zealand. Instant friendship developed and we connected often over the next year in idyllic anchorages of NZ and Fiji. When Hannah received an invite to visit Taylor for her 40th birthday in Hawaii, well…how could she say no?!? We were…
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Malaysia: monkeys, street art and food
We cleared into Malaysia on October 1st. It’s now November 2nd, and we are in Langkawi, a duty-free island just south of the border to Thailand. We are in our fourth marina in a month! In our 8 months in Indonesia we only stayed at 2 marinas (one of which was free). Part of the…
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Reflections after 2 years of living aboard evi
Luz (7) Some of my favorite things to do on the boat are color, play games, swim, and play on the paddleboard. I also play Aina Amelia with Jade — it’s a really fun game we made up. Sometimes Mama really nicely lets us do video games. Passages can be fun, but normally they are…
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