8 Days on a boat in the British Virgin Islands

To my father, thank you for an incredibly unforgettable adventure. May there be many, many more to come.

A couple of years ago, my father and brother took a trip touring baseball parks around the US. The 2 weeks of baseball and brazenly unhealthy food inspired my father to seek out similar experiences with my little sister and me.

Myself being the Boy Scout of the family, my Dad and I knew that we’d want to find something outdoorsy and adventurous. After deciding that we didn’t want to do any great amount of hiking, camping, or carrying heavy things, we decided on sailing.

A year’s worth of planning later, and we were headed towards the British Virgin Islands, in the Carribean. Bareboat sailboat chartering pairs all of the route-planning and logistics-managing of camping and hiking with the good food and beer of glamping.

Our trip would show us plenty of the experiences that you might expect from 2 guys and a couple dozen beers on a boat for a week, but I was surprised at the amount that I learned along the way — about the resiliency of people, and about one of the most important people in my life.

Days -1,0,1 — TortHOLA

“That sounds like a lot of walking… how about sailing?”

Such was my father’s response when I told him that what I wanted to do with his proposed father-son vacation was to go backpacking. After a successful excursion exploring some of the US’s…