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The Kosmos Travel Log is a place for Christi, Eric, and Keith to share and document our travel stories. See About.

Christi and Eric circumnavigated the globe aboard Kosmos from 2007-2009. The underway post where it got started. There are about 800 posts from the trip.

Christi, Eric, and Keith took Kosmos on an eight month trip to the Sea of Cortez from July 2022 to March 2023 (about 130 posts). Keith did updates in both English and French.

After various upgrades and maintenance in San Diego from 2023 to Dec 2024: We’ve Started Another Cruising Adventure! We went through the Panama Canal and bound for the Caribbean, Bahamas, and the East Coast of the USA.

Below are links to some good places to find specific types of information. In addition to boat travel stories, there are also posts on various other topics, including preparing for travels via boat, and stories about assorted land travels.

Note: Our blog posts are usually behind real-time, often by quite a bit.

February 2019 Update on Us

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Our big news is that we have moved back to San Diego! The San Francisco Bay Area was nice, and we did enjoy the boating up there, but we are deeply rooted in San Diego. Eric has returned to work at DivX, and he is excited by the new opportunities there. Keith is back at his former French language immersion school. We have mostly fallen back into our old routine. That includes helping our two remaining parents, who are both in their late 80s, very frail, and need a lot of help.

We returned in early January, when weather windows along the coast are few and far between. We lucked out and got an amazing weather window from San Francisco to San Diego in between two big weather systems. The window lasted three days, and we managed to get back into San Diego in (relatively) blazing fast 70 hours. Here is a photo of sea conditions:

Last year, we did a lot of work to Kosmos. We changed out both refrigerators and the washer/dryer, resealed the main engine keel cooler, installed a new wind sensor and display, installed a new inverter, got new bottom paint, and put Prop Speed on the keel coolers.

We’re hoping that life slows down for us soon so that we can find time to fix the technical issues with the blog site, as well as write posts about the work we’ve done to Kosmos and the places we’ve explored, both via boat and via land travel. Meanwhile, here is a pic from Angel Island, a small island park in the middle of the Bay: