Getting Ready to Go
My wife Mary and I love to travel. If you follow this blog you probably already know that. Our first trip, beginning in 1975, lasted nine years and took us from Chicago to Martinique and back to Florida. We came back for the purpose of starting a family.
Mission accomplished. Now what?
Over the past 25 years we have enjoyed traveling to many countries in Europe, Asia, and the Middle-East. The one draw back all these trips had was we had to come back by a set date. We greatly prefer open ended travel.
So it is time to return to the nomadic lifestyle of our younger years. To this end we are putting our house up for sale and buying a sailboat. We have already disposed of all our accumulated furniture, most of our books, and some of our clothing. We are sleeping in my office while the realtor stages our house (with better looking furniture than we had) for showing potential buyers. It is a bit like camping and kind of fun.
Next week, we will fly to England to shop for our boat. Since we want to start our travels in Northern Europe, it makes sense to buy the boat there rather than buy it in the US and have to cross the North Atlantic. We hope a buyer for the house will have been found by the time we return to pack what few possessions we are keeping and ship them to wherever we find the boat.
Selling a house is more work than buying one. It is a pain in the ass but the nine years we lived in the house were good ones for us. Although leaving is a little sad, we are excited by the prospect of new adventures. I will document our travels, as time permits, here and for the more nautically inclined, on the Cruising Tips website.