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 Don How did I get here again? Flying from Melbourne, FL to Charlotte for a mad dash across the terminal and from there to Dallas. Thankfully, the great state of Texas provides a train from terminal B to A which should assist with the 40 minute link for my flight to Tucson. But all
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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In a world covered with oceans there are millions of beaches, but few come with such a unique feature tailor made for little boys of the late 60s and early 70s who lived their lives as engineers dreaming of adventures in space. ROCKETS! Launching from pad 40 this evening was a SpaceX Falcon 9, unit
Please forgive my frail words as they falter through the thrift shop of thoughts in my mind these days. Few daily routines or rhythm have come to us and we haven’t forced many disciplines into the schedule as the backlog of errands piles higher and higher. The apartment is a bit of a mess and
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How? It’s the word that rings through my head occasionally since retiring in July of 2024 and it always sparks a thread of wonder going back thirty years, three decades… Back to a time when cell phones came in bags, the Pentium processor was king and the WWW was introduced. Really?? My career started at