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Free Luff Nation

Free Luff Nation

Going Everywhere. Very Slowly.

  • Most Recently AtSomewhere in the U.S.A.
  • About
    • Crew: Then and Now
    • Da Boat: Free Luff, Baby!
  • How We Got Here
    • When it Started
    • Charter to Liveaboard
    • Liveaboard to Cruising
  • Shakedown
  • Interim
  • The Life
  • Where’s Free Luff?
  • Miscellania

Tag: road trip

Taking the High Road: Closing the Loop

By Jody Fraser On February 12, 2020

Whew! After that gigantic, slightly better than epic road trip (see previous posts), we found ourselves back in San Diego. And just in time to celebrate Randy’s 50th one more (and last) time, participate in …

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Destinations
family, friends, road trip

Taking the High Road, Part VII: Last Push – Tahoe to SD

By Jody Fraser On February 3, 2020

We reluctantly put Oregon in the rear view mirror, after catching a glimpse of Thad and Kristin in Bend, and the stellar Crater Lake, and made a dash for Lake Tahoe, our home for the …

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Destinations
friends, road trip

Taking the High Road, Part VI: Oh Oregon

By Jody Fraser On January 14, 2020

We’d been anticipating our visit to Thad and Kristin’s terrestrial abode in Bend, Oregon, since, well, since they bought it, and since we saw them in Michigan earlier in the summer. They enthusiastically espoused the …

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Destinations
euchre!, friends, hiking, road trip, walkabout

Taking the High Road, Part V: PNW Hodgepodge

By Jody Fraser On December 29, 2019

We may have mentioned this, but when this road trip plan was hatched, it was supposed to be a tour of national parks, with a smattering of side trips to visit friends and family. Well, …

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family, friends, road trip

Taking the High Road, Part IV: Nelson to Vancouver, BC

By Jody Fraser On December 16, 2019

Still getting caught up on the blog from our summertime road trip! And time is just flying! So, there may be a flurry of posting activity in the next couple of weeks to get us …

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road trip

Taking the High Road, Part III: Saint Maries and a Spokane Drive-by

By Jody Fraser On December 5, 2019

After blasting through Yellowstone, the Tetons, and Driggs, we headed to Saint Maries, Idaho, to get reacquainted with one of my best friends from my days at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service office in …

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Destinations
cruisers, friends, road trip

Taking the High Road, Part II: Yellowstone, Tetons, and Driggs

By Jody Fraser On November 20, 2019

Why, yes, we are quite behind on the blog. Last we checked in, we were at Rainy Lake with our boat buddies, David, Eileen, and Jack, enjoying proper Midwestern weather and life off the grid. …

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friends, hiking, road trip

Taking the High Road, Part I: Rainy Lake

By Jody Fraser On October 16, 2019

The High Road? What we mean is that we took a meandering northern route from Michigan back to the west coast. When the time came to leave Michigan after six weeks, it was bittersweet – …

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Destinations
cruisers, friends, road trip, SUNSETS!

Pure Michigan

By Jody Fraser On September 22, 2019

Where: Suttons Bay, Traverse City, Leland and Fishtown, Northport, Omena, Charlevoix, Harbor Springs, Petoskey, Grand Rapids, Little Point Sable, Mackinac Island, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Marquette Zowee. After sprinting across the country from San Diego …

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family, friends, road trip, water play

Summer on Terra Firma

By Jody Fraser On August 5, 2019

Our first summer as real cruisers – that is, we’d left the relative stability of living in a marina and working in the States for the wilds of Mexico and beyond (well, someday we’ll go …

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family, friends, road trip

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Bookmarks

  • Adventures aboard Epifania
  • Adventures with S/V Milou – A tale of a nine year old girl on the ocean
  • Allan and Rina's Sailing Adventure – The Travels of S/V Follow You Follow Me Continue…
  • call it kismit – by land or by sea, it's meant to be
  • Cat2Fold
  • Dazzler's Watch – Advice and Stories from Life on the Sea!
  • Footloose Adventures – Wandering the world under sail
  • Gato Loco Sailing
  • Halcyon Wandering – Living by the Compass
  • If You're Lucky Enough: Carolyn and JD's Blog
  • Jollydogs – Seawind 1160 catamaran cruising adventures
  • Live Free 2 Sail Fast – The adventures of a family sailing to points south of the border, taking life slowly
  • Older Woman @ Large
  • On Deck with SV Liahona
  • Orion and the Sea
  • Resolute Sets Sail
  • Rolling with Yahtzee – Dream Big. Wander Far. Love Life.
  • Rum Doxy – A Boat Too Far
  • S/V Adventurer
  • S/V Delos – Sailing Around the World on a Sailboat
  • S/V Dogfish
  • S/V Luego – Our Next Adventure
  • S/V Madrone – Follow the travels of S/V Madrone, a Taswell 43
  • S/V Secret Water Adventure
  • S/V Shawnigan – A Family Afloat
  • S/V Silver Wings – Follow the Adventures
  • Sailing La Vagabonde – A Few Words Behind the Movies
  • Sailing Mango
  • Sailing Pandion
  • Sailing Tanda Malaika
  • Sailing Totem – dreamworthy to seaworthy
  • Sailing with a Purpose – Adventure Adrift
  • Sailing with Aldabra
  • Sailing with Bloom
  • Sailing with Pelagic
  • Sailing Xpression – Young Family, Small Boat, Big World
  • Salt & Light – Growing closer…no matter the distance
  • Small World Big Dream
  • Strikhedonia Seawind 1160
  • SV Ripple
  • SV The Answer – Not All Who Wander Are Lost…
  • The Figure 8 Voyage
  • Trio Travels
  • Voyage of L'Chaim
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