OFF the Beaten Path

FAMILY ADVENTURES

Hi! I’m Olivia de Soria. My travel tips and misadventures are equipped with a healthy dose of honesty, so that you can see the real thing and learn from our mistakes. With our two small children, my husband Adam, and I, chase the scenery wherever it goes. We are world schooling along the way, using the natural landscape as our teacher. Whether we are traveling by boat or RV, we have learned that home is a state of mind and our ‘real home’ is wherever we are, together. We are collecting Memories, not Things.

Collecting Memories Not thinGS

Follow along as we share tips on World Schooling, Sailing, RVing and more.

LATEST BLOG POSTS

Southbound

Exactly one year to the day, and we are on our way again! We are going south! We don’t know where, but we have given ourselves one month to get there. We will see how much we can put up with in the meantime. If all goes well, we may make it as far as…
Chesapeake Bay Spanking

We woke up at 530 and made some eggs and coffee by the light of our amazing solar powered LUCI lights. We have a working galley with two burners on it, but we ran out of propane. So we have this back up camp stove that we are using temporarily. The sunrise was calm and inviting…
Hove To and Towed Away

Cobb Island was a nice juncture, but we had ants in our pants so we continued south at 7am. The sky was menacing, but the weather report was promising. Wind! There was wind in the forecast! There were also maybe a few showers, but only a 15% chance, and no thunderstorms before 1pm. We decided to…
Harry W. Nice

We left our little hideaway at Belmont Bay Harbor Marina, at 630am. The sun was out and almost intolerable by 8 or 9. We have a shade cover! We passed a sail boat that was using a sheet to shield their cockpit from the sun, I probably would have done the same. The wind wasn’t…
First leg of our journey down the Potomac

Well, after a year of fixing just about everything on the boat, we have no more reasons to procrastinate. We are going south! We even put the big anchor on. We have allotted about 10 days to get from the northern tip of the Potomac, to its mouth, 96 miles. Adam likes to determine our average pace…
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