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After years of talking/thinking about it we finally decided to cut the land ties, purchase a boat, and start a new adventure. It's that moment when you realize that instead of adjusting your working life to pay for your non-working life, you adjust your non-working life to live within your means. Even though someone else wrote this on their blog - I had to repeat it, because it is exactly what we came to realize ourselves. Yes "Drift Away" - we FINALLY get it.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS...RIGHT?!?! Is yours...

Weekend Home?
A Treehouse?
An RV Park?

Along the waterfront?

At a marina?
A houseboat?

A very very tiny home?

On a cliff overlooking the ocean?

With a blue roof?

With lots of palm trees?

Are you searching for another home?

With a private beach?


An estate home?

Or a beach house?

Sunday, April 28, 2013

       Just us, our dogs & some people we have met along the way...
Dad & I at Twin Dolphin Marina, Bradenton, FL

Me...FREEZING!!!!!!!

Boat Dog...Gia

Gia & I in Hammock Park, Dunedin, FL
Ralphie
Callie...the other boat dog
John's catch of the day...a sheepshead 

John's Twin Diesels in the engine room

John & Barbara aboard GO (doing the Great Loop)

John & I - my first cruise out on the boat

Me and the "Dolphins" we tied to for the evening

John

John and the open ocean...guess who is driving/piloting?

Look what John caught!!!

Me, John & Lonnie 

Do I have to wear my lifejacket???

Lonnie, John & Bill @ Barber Marina

John & I in Carrabelle
Aren't we brave???
This chair is toooooo big!

Sleepy boat dog!

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Some of the sights we saw in our travels from Orange Beach, AL to Jacksonville, FL.

First Sunrise @ Barber Marina

Great Blue Heron

Along Wetappo Creek

These pelicans are hungry-White City Dock

Apalachicola

Harvesting Oysters-Apalachicola

Damage from IVAN-Navarre, FL

Pearl Bayou

The "Nina" @ Carrabelle

This is for sale...any takers??

Fish Camp

Ortona lock

I call this a "side street"

Heading out to the Gulf

White Ibis condo??

Tampa Bay

Along the Okeechobee Waterway

Car Ferry

Swing Bridge...it has to open for everyone

Cows along the Okeechobee

Cormorant-O-Min-ium?

Yes...it is a construction zone

Port Mayaca Lock...Okeechobee Waterway

Turbulent waters in Stuart, FL

Eagle

Full moon rising

NASA

Our anchorage @ Daytona

St. Augustine lighthouse

Fort Matanzas


Bridge in Daytona

St. Augustine

Another lighthouse near St. Augustine

St. Augustine

St. Augustine

Wild Boar!!!

Needs no explanation to my family

Neither does this...

I'll take one please!

Not so nice...nuclear plant near Jacksonville, FL

Jacksonville, FL

Seafarer's Marina, Jacksonville, FL