Just a little background information

     I never really imagined that my life would be blog-worthy. If I had written a blog about my daily life for the past fifteen years of my existence, no one would have read it. I'm not saying that life has been bad, just repetitive and a bit dull. School, homework, friends, softball, babysitting, friends, school, family, friends. Blah. No one wants to read that. Surprisingly, dear reader, I do believe that my life has recently taken a turn. It might even be blog-worthy now.

     So here is a little background info. I am supposed to be a sophomore at Vergennes Union High School right now. If this were a normal year for me, I would be in third block right now, probably hunched over a history book pretending to read. But it is not. Instead of school and work and all of that stuff, my parents and I are living on a sailboat. In about a week, we will be leaving on a nine or ten month voyage that will take us from Lake Champlain to the Bahamas and back. 

     It's a crazy trip really, considering it's pretty much financial suicide. My dad keeps saying that in three years when those college bills first come, he's going to have to tell me that we squandered all of our money on this trip. He is annoyingly practical sometimes, but fortunately my mom is the polar opposite so they balance each other out quite nicely.

     But enough with the money stuff and more about the trip: As I said, it's going to last the better part of the year and take me down the east coast of the US. We are starting from Ferrisburgh, Vermont and sailing down Lake Champlain and through the Champlain Canal. Then we'll go down the Hudson River and spend a couple of nights in New York City. (Side note: I have never been to NYC and I am PUMPED to go there finally.) From there we will make our way down the coast, stopping and exploring loads of places such as Washington D.C. and Charleston. Around the beginning of January we will sail across to the Bahamas where we will spend about four months. We hope to travel around there, going to less known places as opposed to just hanging around Nassau the whole time. Then we will head back up to Vermont and return to normal, blog-unworthy life. 

     So that is the plan. I will hopefully update this blog every week or so, depending on interest and internet access. But this is probably enough for one day. There shall be more posts eventually! 

:)