In a past life I lived and sailed on a sailboat for 10 years with my husband and our two young boys aboard Cowabunga, our 42-foot "ketch" (two masts), first moving on board in 1980 and setting sail from Bordeaux, France, in 1982. We arrived in Bodega Bay, north of San Francisco, in 1990.
Our boys, Sean and Brendan, were 3 years old and 5 months old when we set sail. We first moved on board when Sean was 1. The first time they ever lived in a house was when they were 11 and 8 years old, in a redwood log cabin, amongst the redwoods in Occidental, Sonoma County, California.
I will be posting excerpts here, from time to time, from my future memoir: Cowabunga: Four Souls and an Escargot.
Please check back!
Excerpts
More to come:
Trying to Leave Gibraltar
Rio by Night
Cayenne—Shrimp, Caimen, and Monkeys in the Market
The Land of Papillon
Whiskey in Casablanca
Bagunça!
Space Shuttle
Iguaçu
