Monthly Archives: March 2012

Updates?

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Posada del DesiertoA few people have asked what will happen to the blog, now that we’re regular joe schmoes again (for a while anyways) 🙂 While I can’t promise any dolphin pictures or exciting mechanics stories, I will say that I like this blogging thing way too much to just abandon it!

And if you’ll allow a little moment of bragging, I just had a quick peek at our google-analytic stats, and since the site was first created (3 days after buying Brio last May), we’ve had 1055 unique visitors. Nothing compared to some of the super sailing sites, but I think it’s pretty darn awesome.

(I do wonder a little about who all these amazing people are — because other than every MEC employee that mom has forced to read the blog, I’m not sure how we got to such a number! I also want to know if the person that googled “making vee berth sheets”, and then spent 27 minutes on our site (the top hit), was satisfied with what they found!)

So, in short, I will keep rambling on to you about our dreams and goals and plans and hopes for the future, and I hope that some of you might keep checking in with us too!

And if you ever feel like connecting a little more, please feel free to send an email because I love, love, loooove getting your comments and thoughts! Email address is:

crew(at)withbrio(dot)com

That’s all for tonight,

*Leah

A Winter of Weekends

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A winter of weekends…

Of waking when we wanted,

Wandering ’round the roads of towns we’d never seen,

Waving, smiling and laughing when there were no words,

Washing down decks, canvas, clothing, the fabrics of our lives with water from the Sea,

Willing moments to be captured on film or in words, any way to hold on to the memory forever,

Wonder-ing, wide-eyed, at the wholeness, the width, the wow of the world,

Waiting for weather windows of calm,

Wigging out when the weather was wild, with waves way above us and ocean all around us,

Wishing on falling stars and meteors showers and shooting phosphorescent torpedo trails from dolphins leaping through the dark,

Witnessing real life, real moments, all around us,

Wanting it to last forever.

We wished, we wanted, we worked, and we went:

1341 miles.

And now…

Willing to wait, to want, to work again,

Until the next winter of weekends

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Brio is tucked away in the storage yard in San Carlos. Jon is back in Maine where he is running his business (I will be visiting throughout the summer). And I am in Vancouver, pulling pieces together and dreaming of the adventures we’ll have next year.