sailing casita

Casita has lots of beautiful teak in the interior, which I love, but it can make it feel pretty dark inside. To help lighten and brighten things up I’m in the process of hanging photos on the few spaces available. In the main cabin area there is one large “wall” space (boats don’t actually have walls, they have bulkheads) behind the main settee. Rather than hanging photos here I decided to hang a world map.

The map is on canvas and when I framed it I put a magnetic dry erase board behind it. I am using embroidery thread to record our travels and a little boat magnet to mark our current location.

The boat is actually 1/2 of a pair of earrings I bought on Etsy and glued onto a magnet. It was the smallest boat I could find, it worked out perfectly.

The site I ordered the map from allows you to add some custom text. Usually it looks something like the photo below (a low res screen capture from their site).

But I decided to go in a different direction and have a quote printed on it instead. A search of the internet provides lots of travel related inspirational quotes. Some of the ones I considered are:

But it turns out I didn’t need Google to find the perfect quote (though I did have to search for the exact text and the author’s name). I used a quote from a poem I remember from my childhood.

The quote is the last line in the poem “Johnny Fife & Johnny’s Wife” from “Poems of Early Childhood” by Childcraft. My sister’s and I loved the Childcraft books, they had lots of great poems and stories with gorgeous illustrations. I recall my older sister had a particular affinity for the Johnny Fife poem, even as a small child she had a bit of wanderlust in her! I guess it runs in the family 🙂