By Shannon Lindell It has been a minute since I last posted an update and we have had a few visitors to kick off the new year. It’s always exciting for us to get to show off our little beach town and have had a few occasions to do so since January. First up my […]
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By Shannon Wrapping up 2024 was a unique experience for us. As with many life changes, plans and realities are often very different. This held true as for the first time we spent the holiday without our children, hitting us harder than expected. Thankfully my mom, Cathy, decided that a tropical Christmas was just what
By Shannon It’s been a bit since we’ve last shared, so, what have we been doing while we wait to find our sailboat? We have been exploring our neighborhood, city, island and beyond. We have absolutely fallen in love with Cocoa Beach. Everyone we have met is friendly and kind. We are slowly checking out
By Shannon Our first trip, two years ago, was to determine if the live-aboard lifestyle was for us or if maybe we would just enjoy the occasional sailing/beach vacation and needed to look elsewhere for our retirement plans. You can guess how that went as many of you had to suffer listening to us go
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By Shannon Many of you know one of our biggest concerns with moving has been Henry. Taking Henry who has only known the midwestern lifestyle including a fenced in yard and moving him to an apartment and eventually a boat has prompted many worries for us. At first Henry wasn’t quite sure about this new
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From Shannon Each time Don leaves on a work trip there is a 50/50 chance of a mechanical, computer, health or weather related disaster; that pushes me out of my comfort zone. As you may have seen in his writings, Don is traveling in Tucson for a couple weeks and this time I was positive
By Shannon As many of you know I was born and spent my formative years living in Kansas. I have memories of running through the rain in the middle of the night to the near-by cellar to take cover. Sometimes we witnessed the approaching tornado in the distance but most often it was just a
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