I am always surprised at the changes life throws my way. About the time I was thinking I would drive truck a few months and spend the rest of the year traveling on my sailboat, I met Kelly.
So...plans change. Every Doctor who ever looked at my back or looked at my medical records, said I would never work again, certainly never bounce down the road in a truck again.
Things just aren't that easy. Kelly needed looked after. She lived on the boat with me for a while. Turns out Kelly is afraid of deep water. She needed a home. Not a boat. So I kept pushing harder to drive longer. No worries, I love her. I'll do it.
But here is where things get fun. A hurricane wrecked my sailboat
I will need to drive for one more year. Full-time. Kelly agrees that I need another boat. She had sailing lessons,
but she will not travel on a boat. So, we have determined. I can drive 3.5 months and make what she makes in a year. Once set up with our own place. I won't have to drive Full-time anymore. Kelly has worked at Dmv (drivers license) for about a year. She will retire from there. Driving full time is causing me to have health problems. Bad back, long hours of sitting behind the wheel. I was in the hospital twice this year already. so once we are set up. I'm buying another sailboat and I will start doing crossings to other places. I'll start with the Caribbean And work my way out. Kelly will fly out to meet me when I get where I am going.
It has taken quite an effort to get this far. I first dreamed of doing this while still in the Navy. I was an operations specialist. I know how to figure out where I am at sea. I also know how to get where I am going.
I'm writing this at 3am eastern time. Sleep doesn't come easy.
See you next time.
