Life is an adventure on so many degrees.  Lately the degrees I am referring to are both degrees Fahrenheit of temperature and degrees North of latitude.  Over the last week, both have gone through an enormous change. Tuesday morning as I lifted my weary head from its wonderful night’s slumber in Bend Oregon, my intuition told me that something outside had changed.  I opened the blinds to see a beautiful fresh cover of snow.  There…

A little over seven years ago, in January of 2016, my partner Hannah and I landed on Beef Island in the British Virgin Islands for the very first time.  The purpose of our visit? I was to captain a sailing catamaran with a group of both old and new friends on a week long sailing adventure through these tropical islands.  It was also the first time I had ever traveled away from my home sailing…