Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another
Faced with an empty nest, a couple embarks on an epic voyage across land and sea, seeking the mythical blonde Kermode bear—and their truest selves

Kim Brown Seely and her husband had been damn good parents for more than twenty years. That was coming to an end as their youngest son was about to move across the country. The economy was in freefall and their jobs stagnant, so they impulsively decided to buy a big broken sailboat, learn how to sail it, and head up through the Salish Sea and the Inside Passage to an expanse of untamed wilderness in search of the elusive blonde Kermode bear that only lives in a secluded Northwest forest.
 
Wise and lyrical, this heartfelt memoir recounts their voyage of discovery into who they were as individuals and as a couple, unfolding amid the stunningly wild archipelago on the far edge of the continent.
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Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another
Faced with an empty nest, a couple embarks on an epic voyage across land and sea, seeking the mythical blonde Kermode bear—and their truest selves

Kim Brown Seely and her husband had been damn good parents for more than twenty years. That was coming to an end as their youngest son was about to move across the country. The economy was in freefall and their jobs stagnant, so they impulsively decided to buy a big broken sailboat, learn how to sail it, and head up through the Salish Sea and the Inside Passage to an expanse of untamed wilderness in search of the elusive blonde Kermode bear that only lives in a secluded Northwest forest.
 
Wise and lyrical, this heartfelt memoir recounts their voyage of discovery into who they were as individuals and as a couple, unfolding amid the stunningly wild archipelago on the far edge of the continent.
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Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another

Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another

by Kim Brown Seely
Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another

Uncharted: A Couple's Epic Empty-Nest Adventure Sailing from One Life to Another

by Kim Brown Seely

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Faced with an empty nest, a couple embarks on an epic voyage across land and sea, seeking the mythical blonde Kermode bear—and their truest selves

Kim Brown Seely and her husband had been damn good parents for more than twenty years. That was coming to an end as their youngest son was about to move across the country. The economy was in freefall and their jobs stagnant, so they impulsively decided to buy a big broken sailboat, learn how to sail it, and head up through the Salish Sea and the Inside Passage to an expanse of untamed wilderness in search of the elusive blonde Kermode bear that only lives in a secluded Northwest forest.
 
Wise and lyrical, this heartfelt memoir recounts their voyage of discovery into who they were as individuals and as a couple, unfolding amid the stunningly wild archipelago on the far edge of the continent.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781632172556
Publisher: Blue Star Press
Publication date: 09/17/2019
Pages: 304
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Kim Brown Seely, the 2016 Lowell Thomas Journalist of the Year, has worked in publishing on both coasts, including as senior editor at Travel & Leisure, contributing editor at National Geographic Adventure, and travel editor at Microsoft and Amazon. Her writing has also appeared in OutsideNational Geographic TravelerSunsetCoastal Living, and Virtuoso Life, where she has been a contributing writer for nearly 20 years.

Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Maps x

Prologue xv

Part 1 1

Migrations 3

Test Flights 10

Floating Nest 15

Part 2 31

Casting Off 33

Taking the Helm 42

Crossing Over 51

Canada's Amazon 65

Tidal Time 76

Etch-A-Sketched in Blind Bay 81

Here's to Fingers and Toes 89

Boys 95

Rapids 107

The Real World 115

The Luxury of Slowness 128

The Big Drop-Off 131

Part 3 149

True North 151

Humpbacks 162

Skull Cove 168

Hakai 172

Serpent Islands 180

Shearwater 189

Klemtu 199

Meyers Narrows 211

Looking for a Longhouse 218

Black Bear 225

Kent Inlet 230

Princess Royal Island-At Last 237

Clove Hitch 244

Healing 249

Into the Great Bear Rainforest 253

Mooksgm'ol 258

More Canvas! 265

Acknowledgments 273

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