Joelle Want

Let’s start at the beginning. We are a family who are on a journey of a lifetime: sailing to the Bahamas! We have been preparing our boat, a Catalina 42, for this trip for many months. The boat is far from homey, but is cozy, and is slowly getting to that point! Right now we are in Slidell, yesterday we sailed across Lake Pontchartrain!

When we sailed to Florida through the I.C.W. (Intracoastal Waterway) there was a cold front coming, with high winds, so we hunkered down in a little harbor for a couple of days. We were just chilling at home( I mean boat😝) and did a couple loads of laundry. We could see some dolphins from the boat, and we saw some jellyfish too. Me and Marguerite went to a couple museums, Pensacola Museum of History and the Children’s Museum. We got take-out Thai food, but we really just spent the time at the boat and caught up with schoolwork.

Hello! If you are reading this, and you are not familiar with our adventure, you might be wondering ‘how are they going to do school work?’ I mean, you have heard that Marguerite and I are in school, so you probably don’t think we are just going to take a nice, long, couple of months break, right?  Right! We are starting homeschool!

Hey there! After Slidell, we traveled to Bay St. Louis. We hung out at the beaches both days we were in town. On the second day we took a walk around town, the shops were cute, and the town was a total beach town. We got ice cream from Creole Creamery: dessert at Tiffany’s and nectar sherbet, my two favorite flavors! It was very nice. I would recommend going there, even if you don’t sail.