A day of mourning for Linda and Greg. We had such a great time on the boat and one word can sum it up, FREEDOM! From anything and everything. Kinda of neat to think you are basically self sustained with everything you need to live on a floating structure that can take you almost anywhere in the world you want to be. Throw in the island mentality and meeting great salt of the earth people and you get close to ultimate freedom.

But then I ask myself freedom from what? Time constraints of when one is expected to do something, expectations of what one should do or be, the “normal” life people we mostly know live, from where we will be since we didn’t really know or care and lastly from our own internal expectations we set for ourselves. It took some time thinking and discussing the subject of self expectation to come to the conclusion that being a vagabond is OK. If we are happy then well……enough said.

Here comes that reality thing again, we also realized we couldn’t do this forever. We miss family and old friends and definitely lost touch with reality. I mean we didn’t watch TV for three weeks and about half the trip we had no internet and cell coverage. Parts of me say being untethered is healthy and in reality what really changed over this three weeks?

In conclusion we learned the following:
-you can use the same shower towel for at least three weeks, don’t forget that when you get out of the shower you are clean
-pigs can swim and they eat spaghetti, enough said
-people living what most would think is an alternative life are salt of the earth, they have nothing to prove and are simply doing what they love without money being the motivating factor
-Linda and I can be glued together at the hip for every waking and sleeping moment and have a great time
-writing can really get your thoughts and feelings out and when you write in the moment it tells the true story and your personal journey