Making the Leap!

“You sell off the kingdom piece by piece and trade it for a horse that will take you anywhere.”
― Colin Wright
We have sold off the last of our kingdom, and chosen a life of simplicity.  Carol and I for years have had a dream of getting a sailboat to live our dreams out, before we get to old to travel and experience the things we only dreamed of before.  We had a plan of becoming debt free, and have worked very hard to aquire that goal.  We are almost 100% there too!  We have saved, invested and succeded in this endevor.  We have not always been this lucky, we both have had our financial woes, as most people have.  What commidotiy we did have was excellent work ethic.  So we sat down and decided what we wanted, and a deadline to get that.
Getting rid of stuff was hard at first, but as we sold more and more stuff, the bank account became larger.  We saw that the dream was reachable.  We made boxes for all four children of stuff we thought they might want. We scanned a lot of pictures and documents to have digital copies of them.  It came clear that this stuff was that just stuff, not who we are.  Carol and I both love to travel, and expierence the life of new places.  Living on our sailboat and cruising will fullfill that desire. As of Saturday Oct 4, 2014 we move to the boat fulltime.
Step 1: Sale Stuff  (Check)
Step 2: Find Boat (Check)
Step 3: Relocate to Kemah Tx. and move on the boat (Check) why Kemah Tx. ? We could transfer our medical license to Tx fairly easy
Step 4 : Cut ropes and Cruise : Still to come.


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  1. AnonymousSeptember 30, 2014 at 3:52 PM

    Sailing keeps you younger....all the exercise, fresh air, new friends, special places, good food AND living life at your own pace.....you may be sailing longer than you think..... Congratulations! :-) s/v Caribee - in Fiji

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