BLOGGER BEEBEE IS MOVING

Hey All.....or just my mom and my brother...... I have moved to a new website!!! I think you will like it a lot more. Here is the link http://svlorax.wix.com/bloggerbeebee

Hope you enjoy :)

Bee-ing a Sailor

Cambio at the boat yard in Annapolis

When Spencer and I first started to sail, we were 21 and 22 years old and we had just graduated college. College is this wonderful place that makes you feel like the world is your oyster. "Take an Anthropolgy course if you have a passion for it, go for it! We'll even count it towards your degree! Drawing 101? Perfect!" They tell you prospective jobs love a well rounded student. You end up with a degree in International Studies and blissfully excited about joining the workforce. But as the giant wooden doors of University life close behind you, you're quick to realize that this degree that includes a wide range of knowledge, from Anthropology to Spanish to Drawing, really doesn't guarantee you a job. In fact, while you were in school you were supposed to, simultaneously, be getting job experience in the field you would now like to work in and you were supposed to be taking classes that directly relate to the career you had expected to jump right into. It's a harsh reality and even worse is the realization that despite the four years you had to think about it, you still don't know what you want to be when you grow up!!

Young Breena and Spencer on their first sailing trip with SV/Lorax (Oh the things I would love to tell them!)

Our answer to this early-life-crisis was to travel. We bought Lorax and sailed for two years. Then, still not knowing what we wanted to do, we rebuilt a '76 Toyota Land Cruiser and attempted to drive it to South America. All the while working seasonally in Alaska. Throughout all of this travel we were anticipating that careers and our life's path would unfold and reveal itself to us. We thought we would just happen upon a job that we loved, in a city we adored. That was truly and honestly our expectation.

Then we sailed Cambio. We put over 2,500 miles under her keel, I conquered my fear of multiple day crossings and we discovered one very big thing about our life. We discovered that these trips that were supposed to be a fun way to escape adulthood and buy time before we needed
to get jobs and buy a house, have turned into the life path we were searching for. It was an "Ah ha" moment for us when we realized; we are sailors and we love to be on sailboats. Sounds like an adolescent comment, but it was a life changing moment for us when we decided to stop planning for this imaginary life which included careers and a house, a prospect neither of us were incredibly keen on,  and start planning how to get this venture we love to be our life forever. 

Cambio being hauled out in Annapolis

I'm not saying that we are becoming sailors full time, or even that that is possible, because it isn't. We have to work and make money to live, but our perspective has been adjusted dramatically from focusing on finding our perfect careers, to focusing on sailing and how we can keep it at the forefront of our life. We've figured out that our life is not complete without sailing. So in a move that seems contradictory to everything I have just said, we are selling Cambio! But in doing so, we can put into motion a plan that allows us to keep cruising for a long time to come. So here goes the next phase of our life!!

The home we had for the past 2 years

Bee-ing Indecisive

I have not blogged in a long time....OK a really long time, and it isn't because I haven't thought of it, or I haven't had time, or even that I don't really care. It's for reasons that I have been mulling over since our last trip, the overlanding trip when we drove our FJ40 Land Cruiser down to Guatemala.

On this trip we met a lot of fellow travelers and so many of those travelers had blogs, and we kept one too. If you read my blog during that time in our life, you know that I was not a fan of overlanding. In fact, I hated it.

One of the big reasons I hated it so much was the fact that everyone kept a blog. I know that sounds ridiculous, but let me explain a little further. To me, people blogged about the trips they imagined people wanted to read about, not the trip they were on. Pictures and blog posts were incredibly misleading and never showed the sucky parts of traveling. People would say, "where the road ends, the adventure begins. " What they wouldn't say was, "When the road ended, we got in a huge fight and I cried until we just pulled over and I had a horrible nights sleep, because I was terrified." Upon meeting these people and probing a little, they would of course divulge that everyday hasn't been a Pinterest board of travel shots and they would be honest that sometimes it sucks, but it took so much work to get to that honesty. It became clear to me that most of the people out there were out there so that others would know they were. They lived for Facebook comments, for Blog views and to tell others how they traveled. It should be said that not everyone who overlands is like this and certainly not everyone who blogs is like this. Some of the most honest and humble people that are apart of our life now, are people we met overlanding.

I since deleted our overlanding blog and started BloggerBeeBee, but I have been holding back. To me blogs signify a massive ego. By starting it I felt like I was saying, "Hey, my life is worth reading about, I am more special than you, so look at what I do!" I was torn, because I myself love blogs such as Lahowinds, SouthtoNowhere, and Skylines. I love that subscription notification in my inbox and I never thought they were doing it for the attention. I knew they were doing it to share their experiences and to encourage other people to be honest to who they are and love the little quirks that make everyone different.

So with that long explanation being said, I have decided to take on the blogging world once again, and, I do so, promising to be honest and sincere in everything I write. My life is not more interesting or special than anyone else's, and there really isn't a reason you should read my blog over someone else's, unless of course you just want to. I read blogs because I like them. Skylines is about a single dad that has a job as an 8th grade teacher at an alternative school; funny as hell and he happens to be my lil' brother. HeyPorkChop is fun because I love to craft and knit! Blogs are supposed to be fun, engaging and sometimes strike a cord with its reader. I hope that every time you get a ping in your inbox from BloggerBeeBee you're excited, because I'm back at it and I'm excited for what's in store!

P.S. To those bloggers trying to decide whether or not to be offended by what I have written; If you have a blog and you write and share for the right reasons and you share from the heart, no need to be offended! You are amazing and I guarantee I would love your blog, if I don't already. :)