Crapping my pants

We leave in three days. We will fly from Austin, TX to Fort Lauderdale, FL to pick up our boat.  OUR boat. Eeeekk!! It is actually happening! And now that we are this close, I’m crapping my pants.

Let’s go NOW! (Not really.)

If you can’t tell, we would start this adventure NOW if we had the funds to do so… we read every blog, book, magazine we can find about cruising, we are planning our vacations this year (two – one to Miami this summer, and one to Annapolis in October) so that we can look at boats […]

My turn

So since Michelle got most of her fears down I thought it only fair that I attempt to flush out mine. All in all pretty difficult and I’m not exactly sure why. Perhaps it’s because I’m so infected by the sailing bug or maybe it’s because I take a little more practical (or is it […]

Sail Date set…

So, Matt and I went through our budget and came up with a 27 month plan to get out of debt (hooray!)  – and then another 15 months to save and ship off…  Nov/Dec 2013 should be our target to set sail. [UPDATED: We are now committed to a January 1, 2014 sail date.  Want to […]

Fears and other random thoughts…

All morning I have been thinking about everything I am looking forward to about living on a boat, and also everything I fear about living on a boat.  These are very random. I look forward to being without a schedule, but I fear that it will actually drive me crazy. I look forward to going with the […]