Interview with Teresa & Ben on WUSB
Last spring Ben and I were in the WUSB (SUNY Stony Brook) radio station to discuss our upcoming summer sailing and filmmaking plans. Then, in October Habanero invited us back for a follow up interview on her show “Whatever Floats Your Boat” radio show. We talked about our film project, One Simple Question, and the trials, hardships, successes, and triumphs of our northward journey to see an iceberg this past the summer. It was a great follow up, and a pleasure to be on Habanero’s show again. Click below to listen to the October 21, 2011 radio broadcast. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Click here to hear the broadcast from last May. …
Interview with Jaja Martin – Author, Mother, High Latitude Voyager!
I met Jaja and Dave Martin this summer and was very excited to learn of their world travels aboard a small sailboat. The Martins are unique cruisers in that they not only sailed away from the “destination” places in the Caribbean, and toward the cold arctic, but they also did so with three young children. They began their travels aboard a boat even smaller than my own pocket-cruiser and didn’t stop traveling until almost two decades later. My guess, is that they still haven’t stopped traveling, but are only taking a break. In this podcast, I talk with Jaja about traveling with children, what drove them to keep going, and if she has any advice…
Sailing Magazine Podcast
Listen to a podcast hosted by Sailing Magazine’s Mark Welch in which Teresa and Ben describe the purpose of the One Simple Question voyage, offer advice on exploring voluntary simplicity and describe the joys of life on the water. Click here to listen to podcast.
Whatever Floats Your Boat
UPDATE 10/15/11: Ben and I are going to be guests on Habanero’s show “Whatever Floats Your Boat” again soon. This Friday, October 21, at 7am, we’ll talk with Habanero about our summer trip, the film, life afloat, and some other surprises! And I’m going to bring my “Whatever Floats My Boat” playlist to share! Any suggestions? Friday morning Ben and I were guests on Habanero’s radio show called Whatever Floats Your Boat onWUSB 90.1. Habanero welcomed us into a small control room, its walls decorated with hundreds of stickers. Ben reflected on its appearance—it still looked the same, some twenty-five years after his first radio interview at this station. Habanero, being a fellow sailor and…
Sailing, Simplicity, and the Pursuit of Happiness, began in 2008 when Teresa gave up a whole lot of stability for the unstable plan to chase her dreams by living aboard a boat and taking on odd jobs to support her lifestyle, and selling handcrafted items through her online