I have created this site so that I can share my six month voyage from Alaska to Mexico with friends and family. I guess I should start with a little history of myself and how I ended where I am.

My love of the water has been with me from the beginning. I grew up on the shores of the Chesapeake and have always found myself at home on her creeks and bays. Having graduated college last December I was faced with the same predicament that we all are of finding a job. As a present for graduation my mother was kind enough to send me to a local captains school in hopes that I could combine my love of the water with a profession that I would enjoy. I guess around January I started surfing all the job websites and posts on the internet determined not to settle into a mundane 9-5 office job where I would be staring at the clock every minute waiting to get out. In the meantime I had moved back home and had taking up substitute teaching at my old high school to earn a little cash. In addition I signed up to be an assistant lax coach which was very rewarding.

I would say sometime in march I stumbled across Lindlbad Expeditions, immediately drawn to its exotic destinations and beautiful photos I dreamed how awesome it would be to work for a company that did those things. That's all I thought it was though, I thought I didn't have a chance at getting a job with them, I had no ship experience and the company was all the way out in Seattle. So I wrote it down as some cool website to visit and an afterthought on a career pursuit.

A month or so went by and by now I was getting ridiculously bored of the glorified babysitting that they call substitute teaching when it popped into my head to visit the lindblad website and fill out an application. So I did, I can remember sitting in Sof's class completely ignoring the kids while I filled out the pages of applications and wrote the several essays required.

Over the next couple of months I made myself just annoying enough that the person in charge of hiring knew my name I was able to get an interview the last week of June. One week later on July 3rd the phone call came that I had been waiting for and I was hired!

So that's that, I now find myself 10 days from departure trying to get my life organized enough to leave for 6 months. I am going to make a conscious effort to update this site with photos and entries of my life onboard the Sea Lion.