After a year of planning, preparing, spending money and the like, it's go time! The Moorings experience has been great so far and we are expecting a smooth transition onto the boat just as advertised. Our flight Monday starts in Milwaukee and goes through Charlotte on our way to Charlotte Amalie St Thomas. We are staying the first night in St Thomas and taking a high speed ferry over to Tortola to get on the boat first thing Tuesday.
Our Arizona counterparts are doing Miami St Thomas from Phoenix, so they have a little longer journey than we do. Since the Moorings boats come with everything, there have been a number of conversations about what to bring. I travel a lot and I have learned over the years how to pack really lightly and still not appear as I have just rolled out from under a VW bus after a week at Woodstock. Believe it or not, I can live quite comfortably out of my backpack for 10 days or so. The real trick is how do I get my wife to consolidate? Oddly enough, after a try or two, we have got her down to a backpack as well--lets see if that holds up until travel day.
I added a photo of my 10 day travel kit which includes toiletries, clothes, camera gear and an ipad along with everything else you would expect to carry on a long trip like this one. Bon Voyage!
Our Arizona counterparts are doing Miami St Thomas from Phoenix, so they have a little longer journey than we do. Since the Moorings boats come with everything, there have been a number of conversations about what to bring. I travel a lot and I have learned over the years how to pack really lightly and still not appear as I have just rolled out from under a VW bus after a week at Woodstock. Believe it or not, I can live quite comfortably out of my backpack for 10 days or so. The real trick is how do I get my wife to consolidate? Oddly enough, after a try or two, we have got her down to a backpack as well--lets see if that holds up until travel day.
I added a photo of my 10 day travel kit which includes toiletries, clothes, camera gear and an ipad along with everything else you would expect to carry on a long trip like this one. Bon Voyage!
