Welcome friends and thank you for reading about Plank Runner! 

Plank Runner is a travel and yachting blog dedicated to educating, inspiring and building a community of travelers to live their lives to the fullest. There will be a lot of influences to keep you from walking the plank into great adventure like fear, the unknown, change and adversity. We are here to help guide you on your metamorphosis of life (but keep your therapist, we don’t cover that). 

The road will be difficult, uncomfortable and long, but you are not alone! Each week I will share travel trips, guides, destinations and hacks that hopefully will make you feel more confident, knowledgeable and excited about starting your own adventures towards the edge of that plank. 

Inside Plank Runner, I also have a yacht blog. Yachting is such a large part of my life, that is foreign to most of my friends and family. So, because most of my audience are you guys, yes I will cater to y’all. 

Creating Plank Runner has been a crazy journey for me and I’m very excited to see how far it goes! Thanks for much for tuning in <3

actually about me:

Hi friends! My name is Halley (pronounced Hay-lee) and I am 25 years old from the small town of Spring Grove, Illinois. I am a former Division I athlete and Mechanical Engineering graduate from Colorado State University. I am one of those people not using their degree after college. Instead, I became a deck/stew on a yacht (yes, kinda like below deck). 

I’ve been very fortunate to have grown up surrounded by adventure. We took cruises as a family, I went on roadtrips with friends and now I have a career in yachting.  

My only goals for this blog other than making billions of dollars, are to document my adventures, inspire others to find vacations everyday and to create a place for open conversation about sweet spots on this beautiful rock without becoming one of those people whose lives are only happy on instagram :).