Come Adventuring with Kathryn

What is Women Adventuring?

It's moving in a positive direction to widen our life experiences.  It's creating in our own lives the independence and self-confidence to travel, to enjoy learning about new places and make new friends.

Why seek adventures?

Life is short.  It makes sense to live these few years we're given to their fullest. At the same time we also need to respect the fragile nature of our own bodies and find ways to travel safe.  By traveling out of our comfort zone (home town, state, sometimes even out of our country) we grow intellectually and emotionally.  We satisfy our natural affinity for bonding with other cultures and investigating our world.

But I can't travel because...

Some of us fear traveling without a companion.  Others feel "trapped" because we are partnered with someone who doesn't share our dreams.  The cost of travel is often an issue.  And some women deprive themselves of adventures because they feel they can't leave home until their children are grown.  All of these are issues that I'll be chatting with you about in coming months.  Helping you search for solutions to your own challenges to adventuring.

Meanwhile, here are a few photos taken on a recent trip to the U.S. Virgin Islands.  Because I've always wanted to learn to skipper a sailboat, instead of depending on someone (usually my husband) to take me out, I signed up for a week's course in the basics of sailing.  The course is taught by the Maryland School of Sailing on Halimeda, a 45-foot Island Packet Yacht in the Virgin Islands throughout the winter months.

Virgin Islands

At anchor in a pristine St. John cove

Kathryn at the helm of sweet-sailing Halimeda

Rainbow over St. Thomas, USVI

Studying for my Sailing 101 test in the cockpit

Although I love being out on the water, I'm not a natural sailor.  I was timid about open ocean sailing and nervous of high winds.  What if the dang boat tips over?  (I'm not a good swimmer.  And then there are all those terrifying movies featuring sharks!)  But my instructor was kind and reassuring, and before long I was loving the crystal blue water, watching huge sea turtles surface to check us out, and snorkeling with fish so colorful they looked as if they'd been made out of stained glass.  I'd go back in a heart beat.