Merry Christmas and a BIG thank you to everyone along the way
Sometimes on Scooter, I wonder why people follow us or care about this trip. Before we started we tried to find a concise purpose for this trip, like clean the coast, or open a sailing school, or to give away free pancakes at anchorages, or any one of a dozen ideas we had. And although we’ve experimented with themes we never landed on one. And without a specific cause, we feel largely undeserving for the generosity we’ve received.
This year for Christmas we have ended up in a slip in the San Diego Yacht Club. Our cousins went out of their way to pull some strings and we’ve been allowed access to a slip for a month at an amazing rate. We’re so blessed to have Chuck and Kitsy taking care of us in San Diego. Not to mention the opportunities opened up to us when they loaned us their car.
Before San Diego, we were so blessed by Kate and Brandon in Newport, Oregon when they gave us everything we could need to repair our sails, and tons of spare hardware to keep on board. And a dive mask to retrieve our lost fiberglass plate. And the cutest little succulent.
By Kyla & Rydell who worked with us some very long days to get Scooter outfitted for long cruising, and providing much-needed community.
We were blessed by Nelson who took 2 weeks out of his life to join us for 8 days of seasickness and terror, as well as 6 days of celebration.
We were blessed by Joe and Hannah for making this trip possible. This one is an endless list, but they made so many sacrifices to get us where we are.
The boaters and marina people have been amazingly generous along the way: The couple in Half Moon bay who gave us a tuna, the Chileans who treated us like their long lost friends and gave us everything they could, the guy at the last marina who gave us 60 days of freeze-dried provisions, the kid in Oregon who gave us his prize eel fillets, the two Russian men who fed us all the seafood and far-too-much vodka, Lou & Erica and the COHO HOHO people, the West Sound Corinthian Yacht Club and so many more. My take away from boat life is that sea people are the nicest genre of people. (Also shoutout to Nate and Bobby at Sea Peoples Co for everything)
The Eastons and the Wilburs have also taken us into their homes for Thanksgiving, and for fishing, and for Eunice-sitting, and have blessed us with so many things.
We’ve been blessed by so many friends along the way and the chance to re-connect with people living on the coast. Cynthia, Max & Matt, Ben & Katie, Annie & Steve, Joe & Gummi, Nikki, Brittany, Kim, Brooke, Caitlin, Lindsey, Kate, Steve & Claire,
We’ve been so lucky to have SO many wonderful visitors. Both of our families, as well as Troy, Cynthia, Hailey, Darby, Michalah, Mckenna, Mitch, Alex, Sunara, Tanner, Iris, Aunt Anita, Sam, Christie, Kyle, Hailey again, and Spencer and Sarah.
I could fill a book with the generosity we received, and hopefully, the weekly updates read somewhat like a gratitude list. I missed some, I’m sure of it, but no part of this trip is taken for granted.
Also since this is my blog I get to add that I’m so grateful for Taylor. She’s incredible and 95% of the people listed above are in our lives cause she’s charming and kind, and fun to be around, and she loves people so so well. Thank you Tay.
In conclusion, I still don’t know why y’all follow the trip, but I love that you do. So please let me know so we can offer more of whatever it is. Until then, we’ll try to bless people as best we can, but will be forever trying to pay forward what we’ve received this year.
Merry Christmas
Love,
Scooter.
