Squeezed it in…

Busy day today, and just now sitting down to a computer.  Weekends are always busy at our house. It is a rare weekend that we can just sit around and do nothing all day.  Today was no different. But I did squeeze in some reading today (while supervising the boys swimming while visiting with Matt’s […]

Budgeting

Today I worked on a spreadsheet to determine our best options with timeline to get us to our dream of sailing around the world. I included 5 scenarios – our current mortgage and lifestyle – nothing changes our re-financed mortgage and current lifestyle – nothing else changes moving in June 2013 (which we plan to […]

Boat as a Business

I took a webinar today to learn about buying a boat as a business. I learned about tax advantages and guidelines and how we could make money with a boat in charter 20 weeks per year.  Of course, there are no guarantees with this plan. And we could lose our ass instead, but it was […]

A Post a Day…

Until We are Under Way!  So… I was thinking today… I should probably do something (even if it is just a little thing) every day to work towards our goal of sailing around the world on a boat with our family. In my previous post, Next Steps – I listed 7 things we needed to do […]

9 More Months

We decided two days ago that we will put our house on the market in April 2013. That is 9 months from now. So, naturally, this decision is now my (metaphorical) baby, that will be nurtured. 🙂 Here’s my problem… I am pretty sure (positive) that I will feel like we are missing out on […]