1 year sailing/exploring in French Polynesia

We are still pinching ourselves around here.
We just celebrated 1yr of sailing in French Polynesia!

To this day, almost every time we return to the boat it still feels a bit unreal - like it’s someone else’s boat (or life) we’re returning to.
Maybe it’s the deeply rooted imposter syndrome rearing its head.
Maybe it’s the fact that society still screams at us daily that we aren’t allowed to have this yet… that running away to follow our dreams in our 30s will result in certain disaster or ruin… or worse.

That the fact we don’t have a trust fund to fall back on will mean living with decades of regret.
Or, maybe it’s just gratitude and giddiness as we still struggle to adapt or admit this is all happening.

My brain still can’t accept the reality that we GET to live this life. The same dream we at one point could only write down in a forced goalsetting exercise of “what would you do if time/money/reality wasn’t in the way?”, yet with zero belief given that it was in any way possible for us.

If you flip through our posts here or on Instagram you’ll know quickly that this lifestyle has severe lows to go with its highs… we’ve tried hard to remain very open/transparent/authentic to both the highs and lows in our posts.

But you won’t catch us for even a second being anything less than grateful, overjoyed, blissfully pinching ourselves every single day to see if we’re dreaming - that we simply get to be out here, together, and at a point in our life where we’re still young and healthy enough to fully enjoy it.

For the record - if it turns out we’re dreaming… please just let us sleep.

How much time do you spend daydreaming?
- How about time spent talking about those dreams with your friends and/or significant other?
- How about setting goals based upon those dreams?

For us - this still to this day - is a constant (almost daily) conversation.

We are not only firm believers in the power of dreams, but also in talking them through, examining the potential hurdles and for the right dreams - mapping out our shared goals to get there!

If you won’t even allow yourself the freedom to dream, much less to talk about them openly… how can you ever go about making them into a reality?