Last weekend our friends the Mac Kenzies came over. Thomas and Emily have three beautiful and very smart kids. As we are hoping to have them visit often we spent some time imagining different routes to take around the globe and different places to visit. We will be "cruising", so other than knowing where we are in the present tense everything is always up for discussion. We do have a rough plan though. We will of course tune our thinking as we progress with careful consideration given to weather, civil unrest and prevailing conditions.

Our travel sketch looks something like this:

2006
Fall/2006: Begin in the Bahamas and Florida area to break in the boat and finalize equipment

2007
Winter/2006-7: Cruise the northern Caribbean
Spring/2007: Cruise the Leeward Caribbean Islands
Summer/2007: Cruise the Windward Caribbean Islands
Fall/2007: Cruise up the Caribbean coast of Central America

2008
Winter/2007-8: Cruise Cozumel and Grand Cayman
Spring/2008: Cruise the Galapagos and cross the Pacific to French Polynesia
Summer/2008: Cruise French Polynesia
Fall/2008: Cruise western Polynesia (Rarotonga, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu & New Caledonia)

2009
Winter/2008-9: New Zealand & Australia
Spring/2009: Soloman Islands, Micronesia & Guam
Summer/2009: Aoga-shima, Ko-jima, Kamakura, Nihon (Japan)
Fall/2009: Okinawa-jima, Shanghai, Taiwan, Hong Kong & China Disneyland

2010
Winter/2009-10: Philippines, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia
Spring/2010: Sri Lanka, Bombay & India
Summer/2010: The Maldives
Fall/2010: Seychelles, Madagascar, Africa

2011
Winter/2010-11: The Red Sea, Egypt
Spring/2011: Cyprus, Turkey, Greek Isles
Summer/2011: Croatia, Italy
Fall/2011: South of France, Spain

2012
Winter/2011-12: Morocco and the Canary Islands
Spring/2012: Portugal
Summer/2012: Western France and the UK
Fall/2012: Azores and the ARC (Atlantic Rally to the Caribbean)