Samoa: "Home is the Sailor, Home from the Sea"
“No part of the world exerts the same attractive power upon the visitor [as the Samoan Islands].” -Robert Louis Stevenson Talofa lava, dear friends and family, We’re so excited to share with you the joy and respite we experienced in Samoa. Thank you for your patience. Other sailors said the first South Pacific island we reach after a long voyage will always hold a special place in our hearts. They said we would remember the smells, the colors, the music, the gratitude that we survived, and the surreal feeling of stepping off the boat onto solid land for the first time for the rest of our lives. For most heading west, that’s somewhere in the Marquesas. For us, it will always be Samoa. To truly explain what Samoa means to us, we have to go back a few years. Samoa, 2016 When Dave and I were Lake Union liveaboards, our neighbor had sailed his boat from there to Fiji with his family; as his wife and daughter returned to work and school, respectively, he needed ...