The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

Thanksgiving has come and gone, as I reflect on the year I have much to give thanks too.   This year has been a big one, maybe one of the biggest in my life.  I quit a job I loved and was secure in for almost 20 years to move on the boat.  You wonder why would he be thankful for that? I am thankful that we have the ability to do that, that we planned well enough to do it. We still have a bit more to do to before cruising.   We moved on the boat FULLTIME! I am so thankful for that.  My wife has had two major surgeries for a genetic cancer gene that popped up in her family.  She has beat it, and healed well.  This is something I cannot express how thankful I am, but I do wake up and thank God for allowing me to share my life with her every single morning.  I am thankful that my youngest came down to visit us with, and share thanksgiving with her.  She is such a strong young woman, grounded in good values, and stays true to her dreams just like her dad.  I am thankful that I held some of

Since move in day it has been a blur! Some of you may know I left a job in EMS that I was at for 20 years. This might have been the hardest thing to do.  It was a job I loved, a job that I had security in for as long as I wanted it.    However I have started with a a private EMS service in Houston as Director of Operations.  Hmmm....not the Semi-Retirement job I thought I was going to get.  Is it the company I left, in no way is it.  However the owners have been open to new changes that I brought, and ideas that I brought.   It must be working because I have boought 2 new units, 2 more ordered, and 2 more in the very near future for an expansion to 2 different cities.  Getting away from managine people was what I thought I wanted in a job till the big sail off day. This job seems to fit me, the people are all good...well for the most part.  There are a few weeds that need prunning.  My goal for the time that I am there is to leave it a better place than I found it. Carol, is recoving f