The Retirement Wake on S/V Imagine

Well today was a huge day, we travelled from Arkansas to Kemah Tx. and are live Aboards fulltime.   This is a huge step and a bit scary, but with the dock party tonight , and Buddy ( our cat) has settled in just fine.  Leaving a career that I had at MEMS for almost 20 years was tough.   There really are some great people working there, and taking care of people every day.  EMS is a tough field, but these people juggle home life with the demands of the public.  Monday I start my new job, with a whole new set of challenges.   Buddy was medicated for the 8 hour drive to Texas, and did great.  Which is not his norm.  He has settled into the boat very well.  Pier 14 had a happy hour party to night, and we got to meet several people.   Life is good!

“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 t...