Hold On, Everyone – This is Going To Be Exciting!

Within the next two months, my husband and I will sell everything that we own except a few boxes of treasures (to us), find a sailboat large enough for us to live on, and move on to that boat.  I am beginning this blog on a very significant day because July 4th is America's Independence Day; Rob and I are looking for our independence from the American mindset.  Rob and I know that the phrase so common in America "When I retire, I will..." is a phrase that we have never lived by and don't plan on ever doing so. Life is short and lived to be happy.

Our "plan" - as it were - is to sell off: a 1970 Olds, our 23' sailboat, my husband's Honda, and, later, my Rav4.  Those are the "Big Ticket" items that are supposed to make us enough money to buy a 30'-35' sailboat in which we will live.  Selling off the couches, the china cabinet, and the random stuff we have accumulated throughout our 30-something years of life should make us enough money to survive for a while (fingers crossed).  Perfection?  We find a boat on the east coast or in the Caribbean, we stay where we buy it for long enough to get what we need, then head out sailing.  We may wait until November to avoid hurricane season, but we'll want to be living on a boat already and ready to head out as soon as we're in the clear.
Some people think this sounds crazy, others think it is a pipe dream.  Me?  I know we are going to do it.  I know that things will some how work out.  I know that this will be wonderful.  And, I am scared out of my mind.


All I know to do right now is what I can: live in the present and focus on the details that have to be handled right now.  I need to sell off the trinkets, the furniture, the "things" we have in order to just have money and the essentials.  I need to get rid of so much clothing, a library of books, and randomness that has become our lives, just letting this "stuff" go because I know it IS stuff, it is NOT our lives.  I need to relax, breath, and continue to have faith that everything is as it should be.

I wanted to start this blog, to capture this craziness that we have made of and embraced in our lives.  We are about to jump off the cliff and I want to take everyone with us, being a part of how we make it work, landing safely in the beauty that is just over that edge!  So, hang on, everyone, this is about to get interesting!!!