Blackened Veggies

Ron and I are good savers and have been our whole marriage.  it just happened to be something we were good at and for me that list was short.   Since we knew we were headed for sailing and travel, early retirement fits nicely.

But I digress, apparently, we are now homeless or at least houseless and I guess 4 children isn’t enough drama for us.  Ron and I have been bored during the pandemic and longing for some adventure for several years.   We closed on the boat a week ago and today, sold our house last November, and gave the apartment our 45 days move out notice.  We had decided to rent an Air BNB for a month near the beach.  And now, we are both terrified!  What have we done?  A blogger I follow always say – “How much is your comfort holding you back?”  I guess we are about to find out because this is clearly NOT in our comfort zone.  Especially since I have no clue how to sail other than I know the boat floats.  This will be interesting at the worst right?  I can row & swim.

So here is the plan.  We go down get the boat ready for the water.  We then come to Columbus and move our stuff to a storage unit.  We potentially could get the vaccine but debatable and see the kids.  Lastly, we go back to the boat and take off til Mid May for our test run.  We intend to stay in Columbus for the summer, get the kids all settled and then splash the boat again to take off to the Bahamas next winter.  Not a bad plan, right?  There are only a few hitches…Ron’s company is in the midst of being bought, the global pandemic, and how expensive Air BNB’s are?   We also have never spent more than 10 days on a catamaran so, will we even like the boat life?  Ya know – trivial things like that!

Security is an important thing, and we both just gave it up like dryer lint.  Don’t get me wrong, we have a plan B.   We could simply pull our stuff out of storage and set up shop in an apartment again.  We both could get a job (if we want) and we hope to be in line soon for a vaccine. 

On the flip side, it’s exciting to be so free.  Go where we want, when we want without the responsibility and burden.  We can always Air BNB in Columbus for heaven’s sake!  We don’t want to afford expensive rent + utilities for the next 6 months to a year.  It’s expensive to keep doing what we are doing and have security.  Splitting our time spending on the boat makes this very doable.  In fact, we end up saving monthly if we don’t have a “landing pad.”  This could work better than we ever planned, and next hurricane season we have the freedom to spend a month in California, Michigan by the lake, New England, wherever we dream up!  It’s exciting!

Well security or not, kids or not, we are together, and adventure is inevitable.  Be careful what we wish for…here it comes.