I was in an engine room, you know, I went from, you know, being 100 feet in the air, you know, a loft to being in the depths of an engine room that, you know, up to my shoulders and bilge water trying to rebuild pumps.

And there was something about that experience at sea and surviving and triumphing and, you know, getting that, I don't know, that crucible moment, I like to call it, where it's like, you are formed into a better and like more powerful version to yourself that, I mean, really

still sticks out to me.

Ahoy shipmates, welcome back to On the Wind.

I'm your host, Andy Schell.

And Mia Carlson is here again.

We're sitting at my dad's kitchen table in Pennsylvania,

but we're flying back to Sweden tonight. Mia, I was joking with you a minute ago that it's like

in 24 hours we're going to be home in our house and yet it somehow feels like those are going to be

some very long 24 hours. Yeah, but also if you put it in perspective, it took us almost 18 days to cross Atlantic from the Canaries to Caribbean. So it's almost like a time machine when you're flying. It 100% is like a time machine. But flying with a three-year-old, you get less of the time machine effect, I think. That's true. Those hours just stretch and stretch and stretch. Are you you excited to go home yes i am it's always

nice to come home what are you most excited about i'm excited to be in our own house have our own

things and just be in one space for a little bit and just yeah just be home i'm excited for the colder

weather and to make fires that is true both in the container and in the house. And we're not coming home long. You and I are going to Portugal to do our first trip together since Axel was born. We've talked about this a bunch, but now that it's like a week away, how do you feel? I feel really good about it. I just hope Axel is going to have a quick, long enough transition because we're just going to be coming home

from the US but I think it will be fine he loves being at his grandparents house yeah he'll be

fine and I'm really excited to be sailing again together with you yeah it's it's going to be weird

because we've learned a lot with other people like you and I we're going to have to

reestablish our routine together I think I think it will come very natural yeah I guess, I guess so. What have we got upcoming with bunks on the boats? You're in charge of that. How is the crew shaking out for next year? So we have had quite a bit of sign-ups. I think after the boat show, we had a lot of people coming up to the booth. And I think a lot of people like to see us before they sign up and we had a bunch

of signups coming in from that but we have a few openings in the beginning of the year and a couple

of spunks here and there over the winter and then some in the summertime but it's I don't have it

on top of my head it's best to just go into 59.n.n.com slash 2024 to see the whole calendar. But you're actually sailing this, the next two trips on Falcon, you're going to be on the boat. Yeah, which is exciting. The one in January has space open still. Yeah, I'm closing the year and I'm starting the year. Yeah. So if you want to come sailing with me, you know where to find me on The first trip of the year. That's Portugal to Las Palmas and the Canaries. Yeah. Cool.

Yeah. Cool. Yeah, I'm also looking forward to some stability over the next little while. And we'll see you guys back here. I'm doing the next, next week is the last episode of this season of the podcast. I'm hosting that one. I'm not sure who's going to air yet.

It'll be one of the episodes I did at Bochow. And then we'll take a short break and we'll be back with you in December. Until then. Hold fast. Hi, everyone. Just a little bit of context

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