Ever felt that tug? The desire to "not stand still". Ever wanted to see and feel something different, to get away from the DAY IN AND DAY OUT. To be certain there is something to be said for the "routine and familiar" - but don't you sometimes just get tired of it? Does it occasionally seem too stagnant and stale? Maybe not for you - but that is what we were feeling. We thought maybe its good to stir things up a bit from time to time - to leave the familiar behind in search of new adventures. Surely, life is more than working to make money and then spending it all on things you don't really need putting you in a position where you have to go out and make more money so you can again spend it... all the while griping about the inflexibility of your work and life! Its a never ending cycle that we are all caught up in. And through it all we fail to see that which is truly worthwhile... That is the reality for most of us - DAY IN AND DAY OUT. One day after our son had left for college we realized that our big house was becoming a burden - it was work all week at work, then come home and work all weekend keeping up a house over and over, DAY IN AND DAY OUT. The monotony only occasionally broken by a vacation. We started dreaming about sailing away... paying off the house and saving for a boat. And then... as fate would have it life changed. My work situation changed not once but twice in two years!! Now how is that for a little push in the direction of your dreams?? Fate was talking to us - we needed to heed the calling. So... we sold the big house, bought a little house - and a boat on the same day. Our dreams were becoming reality... slowly. We bought Talaria in Punta Gorda, Florida August 2013 and sailed her across the Gulf of Mexico (which was really just motoring across as there was no wind) with our Captain buddy and then dropped the mast in Mobile. From there it was up the Tenn-Tom to Kentucky Lake. Our boat became our home and the plan was to stay till around February and then head out. But February came and went (we made it through one of the worst Kentucky winters on record) and we were still there... Finally, we made the return trip to Mobile put the mast back up and headed out for Florida with the goal of making up the Atlantic coast. Tomorrow we leave St. Petersburg for the Keys - we will winter in the Bahamas and then up and out of Florida. Life in the "fast lane" is becoming "life in the slow lane" - at five knots (seven on a good day!).
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