Traveling and living on a sailboat is immediate, diverse, and full of surprises. Murphy's Law often hits particularly hard on board, encounters with charismatic fruit vendors and eccentric taxi drivers can be enlightening, world travelers with empty pockets and proud owners of superyachts understand each other, maggots like to hide in bread dough, and visits from snakes are not out of the question. Voices over the night ocean are not unsettling, and the Bermuda Triangle certainly lives up to its bad reputation: all of this is experienced in the life of a cruising sailor – or you can read this book. For two and a half years, Regula Gurtner lived on a sailboat with her partner Thomas Büchi. With their BALU, the two sailed from the Baltic Sea to the Caribbean and back again. In a personal reflection, the author shares her experiences.