Janet Peters:  

Greetings from Penn Valley, CA. I am married to my husband Dave (30 years) and we have four children between us. We lived in SoCal for 15 years in La Habra Heights, then aboard our boat Tesuji, a Transpac 49 ketch, in Newport Harbor and then Long Beach. All the kids lived aboard at one time in their life with us. Our goal was to cruise the world but when Dave's early retirement came through he decided against it much to my objections. What we did do though was sell the 49 foot fiberglass ketch and bought a classic wood ketch and moved to Lummi Island, WA for 5 years and cruised the San Juan and Gulf Islands during the summers up there. Island living was a lot of fun and I still miss it there but Dave was tired of having to pay the rising ferry costs and wanted to have easier travel access. The ferry only runs on a limited schedule so you had to plan everything around that. So we moved to the mainland in August of 2006 to a rural area called Bow, WA nestled in the foothills off of Blanchard/ Chuckanut Mounta...Expand for more