This Rat Sailed

The other day I mentioned that things have been a bit crazy here as we prepare to make our way out of the hurricane box my insurance company...

My wife and I, with my parent's help, have been putting in long hours the last several days trying to meet a deadline with our house.  T...

I think we are finally getting a handle on the house. It still amazes me how much stuff there is once all the big items are gone.  Thanks...

Sorry for going radio silent for a little while.  It has been quite hectic around here.  We had the nice going away party last Sunday and it...

They call the act of heading off cruising "cutting the dock lines".  Untethering yourself from your previous land-based life as it...

It's a game every person that moves from being a dirt dweller to a first-time cruiser plays.  And based on the blogs I read, it is a gam...

Sorry for going silent for a few days.  It wasn't my intention...but neither was getting sick just after getting back to Denver.  I'...

Coming back to the house in Colorado this time has been a very different experience than the previous trips. Yes, it was great to see my wif...

This evening I'm heading back to Colorado.  This is a good thing.  The goal is to do the last few touch-ups to the house and get it on t...

Sunday was the last day of our estate sale. We decided to do something we found fairly common in the estate sale business, we made Sunday a ...

Day two was a bit more organized than day one.  I started putting the signs out a full hour before the sale started...with an added note on ...

After getting to sleep at 4 AM, we awoke at 6 AM to prepare for the first day of the sale.  We make some coffee...a lot of coffee...and cont...

As is usually the case, by the time I get to write about an event it has come and gone and so it is for our estate sale.  But let me take yo...

Wow.  It's been almost a month since my last post...and I was sooooo planning on picking up the pace on the blog posting front. I though...

Moving from a couple thousand square foot home to a 38 foot by 21 foot catamaran is definitely an exercise in downsizing.  I'm pretty su...

Last time I mentioned how I had lost a few things and that those losses were good things.  Well, the good losses continue.  This past weeken...

For the next couple months my posts may be a bit more sporadic.  I have returned to Colorado to help my wife with our house.  We have lived ...

We (ok, mostly my wife) hit a major milestone yesterday.  We got the first house on the market.  When my wife inherited her fathers house, ...