Day 215

The Boat's Flag

Chris in the Galley

Our Condo on the Water

View from Stern

Captain's Quarters

After a five hour drive, down the 101...we made it to Santa Barbara.  But getting there wasn't the hard part, it was the two trips of lugging all the food, drinks, and luggage from the car for a long walk away to the boat.

Here you see all about the boat.  And this boat has a story that started nearly twenty years ago...

While living in Westlake Village (in Southern California) my brother, Derek, took out this small raft with a motor to go fishing.  Well, this created a spark with my dad and a motorized boat was bought.  

As a family, we would take this boat out to the Channel Islands and a love was begun.  My brothers and I all got scuba certified and boat outings were our thing.

But this didn't mean that we knew what we were doing!  A few trips with some serious trial and error took place, but we all got the hang of it...my mom and I sure learned how to be bathing beauties real easily.

After my parents moved away from Westlake Village to Northern California, the bigger boat had to be sold.  A smaller boat to take out on the delta and to the lakes would take its place.  But, we soon learned...we were ocean people.  But, we were Southern California ocean people.  That smaller boat was sold.

Some years went by and being boatless just was not working.  My dad started to investigate, little did I know, about a boat and a slip in the Santa Barbara Harbor.  And, one day I received a call from my mom exclaiming, "We have a condo on the water!"  

Now, Chris and I enjoy traveling to that condo on the water!