Jack and Zdenka Griswold had a bit of a conundrum on their hands Wednesday morning as they tied their dinghy to a dock at Portland Yacht Services. What’s next?
“We’ll spend the summer and enjoy Portland, I guess,” Zdenka, 59, said.
In 2009, the husband-and-wife team left Portland in search of “blue-sea voyages.” What followed was a lengthy journey around much of the globe. “Once we were through the Panama Canal there was no looking back,” said 63-year old Jack.
Following an urge to have an adventure before life wouldn’t allow them to, the Griswolds quit their comfy jobs – Jack as a nonprofit worker for refugees and Zdenka as a lawyer on Wall Street – and set off on the adventure of their lives. With a few exceptions for flights home to see family around the holidays, the couple lived on their 42-foot Valiant sailboat, “Kite.” Some of the highlights included visits to Indonesia, French Polynesia, New Zealand and South Africa.
“It was a very old-fashioned way to travel,” Zdenka said. “Four months here, three months there. It was wonderful.”
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