author interview with barbary chaapel, on her book, journey of the snow goose

hi friends! what a lovely spring this is - or WILL be! we recently had a wonderful interview on our travel site with our good friend barbary chaapel, about her sailing book, journey of the snow goose. she is my favorite poet - i love her books!  the journey of the snow goose is a detailed log of their journey on their sailboat, the snow goose. it is an EXCELLENT read, one i highly recommend!

as always, barbary has such a way with words - here's an excerpt from her talk with us...

WE: What is it like, to truly leave home? Can one ever come back? Or, do you just circle, in life?

BC: I don’t think we circled.  That was our adventure of a lifetime.  This mountain life we live now is fine, too, but not comparable. The difference between blue and green.  When we left the dock at E. 55th Street Marina in Cleveland on that summer day we never gave a thought to the fact that we would be all by ourselves with no one else to depend on. I’m an Aries, Bill a Leo.  Maybe this attitude is built into our stars.  I must say many friends and family were disgruntled that we would leave them - I could feel it in their questioning - what are you running away from?  And our reply was not running away, running toward!  We gave ourselves an edge as far as our house - renting it out the first few years, selling it at a later date.  So in the beginning we knew if our boat foundered or we became ill we had a house waiting.  Turns out we did experience just that when a forty ton fishing boat rammed us.  That’s detailed in my log.

to read more of the interview with barbary, click here...