The Final Countdown
We're leavin' togetherBut still it's farewellAnd maybe we'll come backTo Earth, who can tell?I guess there is no one to blameWe're leaving ground (leaving ground)Will things ever be the same again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw I played piano at a...
The Circle of Life
Yesterday, David graduated from the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding Marine Systems program. The pandemic-year class that David was in was full of really interesting people. Some veterans, some that were looking to start a different career, some who were...
The Only Thing to Fear is Fear Itself
We went through an interesting twist this weekend when we started to consider spending another season here in Port Townsend. It was an 18 hour discussion, which resulted in us staying the course that we'd already discussed. Ultimately I don't know if it was fear of...
It’s Just Stuff (or anything that can be replaced will be sold)
Yesterday we started taking inventory of every single thing in our house, and each item was placed into a bucket: Boat/Bay, Storage, Sell, or Donate. There isn't a lot of stuff going to the Boat/Bay, and about 25% of the stuff we have is going to Storage. This means a...
My Shorts Fit Better, and the Dog is Still Alive
As you can probably imagine, we're going through a monumental shift in our lives, individually and together. Leaving the Bay Area was a huge shift in thinking, because we'd both lived there a long time and we have a tight group of friends there. Our sailing community...
The Loose Plan, Subject to Change
I've had a few people recently ask me what the plan now that we own our cruising boat. The loose plan as of now is to go back to the Bay Area in mid to late October, get the boat ready to move aboard (things like the fridge and freezer need to be fixed for example),...
I Love the Pee En Dub
I really do love living up here. This is the first time I've lived in the Pacific Northwest after having lived all of the country, though my parents had lived here for a while before so I used to visit a lot. Too young to really appreciate it, and it's a totally...
What’s In a Name, Anyway?
The name is Prudence. It's always been Prudence. Pru402 is now Prudence, Mid Pru was Prudence, and Old Pru was Prudence. The name arrived when David arrived, and he says that as long as he's wanted a big boat to live on, he's wanted to name it Prudence. Why? "It's a...
Boom or Bust
The boat we just bought has a top priority list of things that need to be done on her, and managing these projects from far away isn't easy. It's made much easier though working with people who have become our friends from the last many many years of living in the Bay...
If Not Now, When?
It was a dark and stormy night... Not really, but sounded good. So there we were awake at 230a on the Friday morning after we closed on the boat purchase. We already had a long list of stuff that we wanted to change on the boat. We had seen our friends who live on a...
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