Embracing the Live-Aboard Lifestyle

Hi 👋, I’m Kym In Oct 2019, I quit my corporate job to take off on a solo backpacking trip “around the world” that abruptly ended due to 🦠 the pandemic. When I returned on the last ✈️ back from Nicaragua after experiencing global border shut downs & hitching a 575 mile ride on the back of a motorcycle from El Salvador to Nicaragua, that’s when “live aboard life” began for me. I returned to Seattle post-trip after having sold, donated & gifted most of my belongings (kept my Jeep Wrangler- Joy), and letting go of my downtown apartment, to “temporarily” live with my boyfriend on a 2 BR, 2 bath yacht 🛥 because he “had lots of toilet paper, ramen, & long term provisions” to help us get through a time when Seattle was the US ground zero for the pandemic & people were fighting over 🧻. So nuts. What we thought would be a multi-week ordeal is ongoing. We’ve since lived aboard with our 27 toed 🐈‍⬛, enjoying the freedom of minimalism, & just recently got a new ⛵️ to start learning to sail so we can take our travels together to the seas in addition to overland. #dreamcometrue Instead of giving up on my dreams, I pivoted. After living & working in CA, UT, AZ, AK, & WA (worked OR too) in tourism over the years, I returned to “my home states” to go deeper on exploration, adventure, & travels. I took up through-hiking, climbing, canyoneering, mountaineering, rafted & camped 21 days down the colorado river, spent months overlanding visiting western; National, state, and BLM parks. I read voraciously and spent all my days outside, growing, learning, and becoming the woman a younger me probably needed all along. @sea2summitexplorer is retiring after 20 yrs in the coast guard this AUG & we can FINALLY travel together full time thereafter, overland in our Cabover Camper & by sailboat, internationally & nationally. I turned my gap year into a lifestyle I don’t need a vacation from because its designed with learning, outdoors, rest, play, love, & adventure at the core. A Joie de viviré that has proven to be “end of the world proof.” Currently training for MT RAINIER: 7/1-4 I genuinely cant wait to see what’s next and I hope you’ll join us along for the adventure.