ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico educator just returned home from the trip of a lifetime, spending 11 months traveling the world by sailboat.
Louis Gonzalez was part of a team of amateur sailors that raced across three oceans, stopping at six continents in the Clipper Around the World Race.
Gonzalez was the assistant principal at Madison Middle School in Albuquerque and was feeling burnt out from the pandemic. After working for nearly two decades in New Mexico schools, he decided he needed an adventure…