We are ready to start actually cruising! We checked off two major items on our to-do list that will enable us to start moving. The first is that Dave got his Boat Remote! Ours is called Docking Master, and the engineer who helped develop it also installed it. He brought along a younger man […]
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We’re living on a boat! After nine thousand road miles, a couple round trip flights, mind-boggling hours of screen time, ten weeks living in a camper, a Cannonball Run across state lines to find a notary, a lot of waiting for suddenly urgent administrative events, and of course our driver’s license saga, we have officially
It’s been a quiet couple of weeks in Lake WeBeGone… Sorry. That might be more of a Minnesota joke. But seriously, it’s been a couple weeks of admin, waiting, a day of Boat Excitement, more admin, more waiting, and a psycho squirrel encounter. We moved up to Fort Pierce last week, about two hours
I didn’t expect this topic to be a two-parter, but I guess that’s all part of the adventure. Turns out, the complications described in my last post were just the appetizer. But first, the good news: WE FOUND A BOAT! More on that later, but needed to get that out because it precipitated how a
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Simplifying our lives seemed like it should be…well, simple. This whole adventure was born of a desire for more spontaneity and less planning, minimizing routines and maximizing new experiences, and fewer things on our ‘to do’ list and more on our ‘done did’ list. But we discovered this past week that getting to simplicity is
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Standing in below-zero temperatures silently begging our dog to poop as she charged through the snow was nowhere in our plan for this great adventure, yet here we ingloriously stood. The circumstance surrounding this arctic vigil was our drive back to Minnesota to close on the sale of the house (or ‘dirt home’ as wanderers
Words matter. I’m a firm believer in this concept. But this – this! – is a whole new dimension. In the medical profession, we get beat up regularly (and frequently rightfully so) for using ‘doctor talk’ too much: words with too many syllables, Latin spellings that look scary even if you do know what they
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Eight years is a long time to live in one place. Now I know that statement is eliciting a wide range of responses, from raised eyebrows to nodding in assent to thinking it’s a typo and I really meant ‘eighty.’ Our military friends are the ones agreeing, fellow retirees with a wisdom borne of long
We returned home from The Camping Weekend That Changed Everything in August with a whole new energy and way of looking at the future, COVID or not, and neither of us has questioned the decision since. Which is sort of our style – once a decision is made we don’t look back. Dave would have