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February 21, 2018

BuzzFeed Travel Features 'Sail Cowabunga!' Blog→

February 21, 2018/ Janis Couvreux
BuzzFeed Travel Features 'Sail Cowabunga!' Blog

Sail Cowabunga! blog posts catches BuzzFeed's eye.

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February 01, 2018

'Sail Cowabunga!' Story Shared in Family Travel Feature →

February 01, 2018/ Janis Couvreux
'Sail Cowabunga!' Story Shared in Family Travel Feature

Couvreux family featured among five who left it all to travel the world with their children.

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September 12, 2017

Up and Over

September 12, 2017/ Janis
Up and Over

While preparing coffee, I glimpsed Brendan scrambling up the ice chest. I yelled for him to stop, but he was over the net and in the water with a big splash in two seconds flat!

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September 10, 2017

Down But Not Out

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Down But Not Out

Barely out of Florianopolis, we were tossed around violently—a cork on a wild sea of foam, with 50 knots of wind. As the sea grew more frenzied, I became alarmed, and I seriously wondered if Cowabunga was going to pull us through intact.

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Sail Cowabunga! A Family's Ten Years at Sea, Janis Couvreux is a journalist, sailor, mom, grandmom, traveler, and Franco-American, who has blogged at the Huffington Post about living bilingually, crossing oceans, backpacking adventures, and raising kids outside the box.

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