We’ve been on the boat about 24 hours and we haven’t even moved it yet. Just sitting in the marina. And I’m totally cool with that.

We expected to stay in Anacortes overnight (were we are right now) but we decided to stay another night too. Why not? This is a cool little town, and lots of restaurants and shops. Nice scenery, and decent weather right now.

Normally, we’d have to sail for over 5 hours to get up here, and it’s a place I don’t normally get to stop on the boat, because it’s slightly out of the way when going on a straight shot up to the San Juan islands.

This time though, instead of sailing this far up, we drove. Normally we’d start in Seattle, but this time we got the opportunity to start in Anacortes, as that’s where the boat is right now. And that’s awesome because it’s a great jumping off point to get to the San Juan Islands. Which is where we are headed.

No idea where exactly we’re going yet. Normally we’d have a pretty exact travel itinerary, we’d know which island we’re going to be on each day, and have reservations at key marinas to refuel, and get water, etc. Not this time.

This time, we have a toddler, two dogs, Lindsey is in her third trimester of her pregnancy, and we have no plan. We’re just letting the wind and our own whim take us wherever.

Should be interesting.

So yesterday, we met my parents for Father’s Day lunch, then we unpacked, got the boat all ready, and explored the marina. Jackson had a ton of fun playing around and we found some an oversized checkerboard to play with.

Last night we didn’t cook, we went out to eat at a place called Anthony’s. I got the blackened rockfish with pineapple mango salsa and rice. Lindsey got the fish and chips and Jackson had some little wild salmon burgers, although the majority of his calories were from wolfing down a huge brick of butter.

As it was Father’s Day, I also had a few beers. We then walked back to the boat, watched The Jungle Book with Jackson (he is a big fan of that movie) and went to bed.

We still haven’t gotten enough groceries to make much real food. So far we only raided Trader Joe’s for snacks. Lots of cookies, candies, taffy, trail mix, chocolates, etc. So this morning we woke up and went out to breakfast.

I ordered coffee with cream. As soon as my coffee arrived, Jackson swiped my creamer cup and chugged it. Then he proceeded to rip open a pack of sugar, dump it on the table and start licking it off.

That’s my kid 🙂

Lindsey got biscuits and gravy, I got huevos rancheros. Both were pretty awesome.

After that we walked around town hit up the drug store and got some first aid supplies for when where out. Hopefully we won’t have to use them.

And, one of our dogs, Clover, is having some really bad allergy attacks, so, unfortunately we had to get a cone for her to put on her head to prevent chewing and scratching. We also got some concentrated sulfur stuff to help out with her hot-spots.

Now we’re back at the boat, Jackson’s asleep, and we’re just hanging out.

Next, we’ll probably go grocery shopping and stock up once Jackson’s up, and then maybe decide on where we want to sail to tomorrow.