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Learning to Dive

After I wrote about our experience scuba diving, I said I would write a bit about the training. It’s been a minute or two since I said I would do that, so I’m getting to it. Now that the school year is out, and even though I still have work to do, I have aContinue reading “Learning to Dive”

Scuba diving

Once we decided that we would set sail, we all agreed that for both practical and pleasure purposes, scuba would be a good skill to have. There will always be under the boat work to do, such as scraping growth off of the hull or maybe even untangling line from a propeller. Beyond that, itContinue reading “Scuba diving”

Money is a renewable resource…Time is not — Ben from Sailing Nahoa

I’ve actually tried about five different versions of this post. It’s about money. One of the more common questions I get is, “How can you afford to live like that?” I understand at the heart of the question is, how can you afford not to work. As I’ve written the previous versions of this, IContinue reading “Money is a renewable resource…Time is not — Ben from Sailing Nahoa”

Change to change

On March 18, 2020, early afternoon, I was riding my bike home from work. Schools were out because the Coronavirus had just hit our area. As I crested the final hill home, I saw that there had been an accident at the next major intersection. As I got closer, it kind of looked like ourContinue reading “Change to change”

Food Changes…

Making changes involves a lot flashy big exciting things, but it also involves a lot of little mundane run of the mill stuff. I’ve struggled to come up with topics lately to write about, but as I was out on a short hike, I was thinking about some of the changes that we have beenContinue reading “Food Changes…”

Traditions

Let me start by apologizing for not having anything new lately. Two things here. One, between Thanksgiving and Christmas is always a busy time, as most of you can imagine. So there hasn’t been a lot of time to write. Two, there hasn’t really been a lot going on in terms of getting ready. We’veContinue reading “Traditions”

Fear

I’ve been thinking a lot about what to write this week. It’s been busy, and I’ve been struggling a little bit to develop a topic. Really, with sailing season in the Rockies over till the spring, work is limiting travel, etc. about all we are left with is selling things in terms of getting ready. Continue reading “Fear”

It’s all about perspective…

Sailing season in Colorado is over. The weather has been beautiful, but boats need repair and you just never know when snow is going to fly, so November is the end of sailing. We have one lesson left in the 101/103 series, but we’ll get to finish up in the spring. In the meantime, weContinue reading “It’s all about perspective…”

Remington, Part II

Losing a family member is never easy. I really couldn’t bring myself to write about Remington which is why I shared some of my favorite pictures. This week, I thought I’d share some of my favorite memories. Remington was 12. He had a good run. All week, I’ve been hearing other dogs in the neighborhoodContinue reading “Remington, Part II”

Remington

Remington was 12 when he crossed the Rainbow Bridge. I’m hopeful that he is now romping in fields that stretch for miles while he chases squirrels and eats lots of dog treats. He was one of the most unique dogs that I have had in my life. While he’ll never know the life of sailing,Continue reading “Remington”