InsightsfromtheMat

Hi!!!! I am Renee and I am an adventure traveler, yogi, diver, and sailor. I am excited to share the inspiration behind our first combination retreat. If you know us, you know that we live to travel! Our passports are always at the ready and we say yes before we know any of the details.   Diving and underwater photography are my wife Megan's Passions (you can check out some of her pictures at @DiverMegan ). I am a Yogi, primarily vegetarian, meditate daily, and own a boutique yoga and fitness studio in SWFL. It is our love of travel that keeps us going, together, on adventure after adventure. We have sailed catamarans in the British Virgin Islands, gone on safari in Africa, spent time teaching a college course on Sports & the Olympics in London during the 2012 games. Don't get me started on the several occasions we have indulged our way through Italy. We care about the details when we travel and aim to make every trip an adventure to remember. So, we are excited to announc...

Well Gang it has been an adventures couple of days!   From Saba and the Bitter End we sailed to Trellis Bay and had a few at De Loose Mongoose!  Beautiful Harbor but we were all WET!  To get ahead of the rain we left early to head to Jost Van Dyke.  That was our first time there, and we really wanted to visit the Soggy Dollar and Foxxy's.  (You may be seeing a trend here!)   Made it safely to the Anchorage, swam off the back of the boat to a beautiful reef and floated for a couple of hours.  The rain, my friends, did not leave.  So we had lunch headed in for a drink.  So let me paint a picture.   In order to go into shore you have to get off of a semi dry Sailboat onto a OPEN dingy and motor into shore (WET).  Because of the number of our guests, that requires 2 trips!  There is no dock at the Soggy Dollar - that requires beaching it.   (Now this is where it because apparent who does what in our sailing partn...