You can't live the dream until you get in the boat!

Welcome to the web site for Mark Read, Amy Read, and Robert James Read.  This site was built to keep our family and friends up to date on our sailing trip which started last June in Seattle, Washington. 

We have so far sailed as far north as Glacier Bay, Alaska and currently have made it as far south as Mazatlan, Mexico.  Our immediate plans are to head south from Mazatlan to Panama. 

The longer we do this the more practical we get about our goals.  If and when we reach Panama, we hope to then turn east through the canal and into the Caribbean sea.  I have stopped saying when I think all of this will occur, I'm tired of being wrong.

We returned to our home in Overland Park, Kansas during the holidays.  As feared, we have been sucked back into the world of the suburbs and all that goes with it.  The law of inertia  says that an object in motion tends to stay in motion, and and object at rest tends to stay at rest. 

We have found ourselves resting in Kansas and we can not get out of this state.

Our sailboat "Calpurnia" is in Mazatlan, Mexico waiting patiently for us to return. 

We hope you will take a minute and leave us a note on our Contact page and let us know you were here.

Check out the Travel Log for a synopsis of our travels with photos and tall tales.

Google Earth Additions:

We have become a fan of Google Earth and have found this a helpful way to visually document our journey.  Here is a current .KMZ file to work with Google Earth.

When downloaded, along with Google Earth, this file will show you graphically all of the places we have stopped and a little bit of info on each of them.  We are not done adding background info to the .KMZ file, but this is a good start and we think it will be helpful to those interested in traveling the inside passage.