First Year Sailing Catamaran Giro – FINAL installment
Welcome back! It has taken me almost half of a year to recap our first year aboard our sailing catamaran GIRO! Thanks for sticking with us… this is the final post on the subject… covering the last three months of our first year aboard. If you missed Part One, Two, or Three… or you’ve plain […]
Thunderbolt and Lightning, Very Very Frightening
I hear someone say lightning and I used to immediately play the Queen lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody in my head….“Thunderbolt and lightning, Very, very frightening me. Galileo. Galileo, Galileo Figaro Magnifico-o-o-o-o.” Now, it’s a completely different response. I get a shudder down my spine and a cringe. You guessed it, this is the long awaited lightning post, where you […]
Progress and Goals
With a new year, I think most people take stock of their lives and ask themselves… where are we now? where did we expect to be? what is on the horizon? We are just like everyone else! And so, I present Around ‘n Circles’ progress report and 2013 goals.
Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, Where the Heck Will We Go?
That is the burning question right now in our house… where are we going to move next spring? Originally, the idea to sell our house in April 2013 had three goals: Get us out of this enormous mortgage, so we could save more $$ for our RTW sailing adventure Get us out of this enormous […]
The life of a secret hoarder…
Our #1 priority since January has been to GET OUT OF DEBT. And we have made HUGE progress this year. We’ve slashed 1/3 of our debt (whoop!) and as of right now, we are slated to be out of debt in January 2014. However, if we can pay an extra $1700 between now and then, […]