#14 A trip out West.

A trip out West. Just a heads up, this is another non-sailing post. (I just don't like posting on FB or any of the others. I'm a writer and I like my words to be in existence somewhere, not scrolled into oblivion right before a "sponsored"…

#13 What has happened to me?

I used to be a fairly typical professional, mother of two who spent her time working, cleaning, cooking, cleaning, caring for the house, cleaning, dropping off/picking up kids, cleaning, arranging social activities, cleaning, and vacationing…

#12 What do you do with a big boat?

Take it on a trip! Last year a friend of ours, David, took us to the Monroe County Hot Air Balloon Festival at the Sequoyah Birthplace Museum near Vonore, TN. Sequoyah was the creator of the Cherokee written syllabary, allowing the Cherokee…

#11 Are we having fun yet?

(That is Cheryl, helping me work on the hatch.) MoonShine has been home exactly one month, and I think we’ve been down to the boat to work on it almost every single day since, except for a handful of days here and there. She hasn’t even…

#10 Livin’ in the woods

No sailing this time, the boat hasn't moved since our last post. We've been cleaning and tinkering with it but haven't taken her out yet. We did go camping in Cheryl's new trailer, and since I don't post much on FB or any of the other SM places,…

#9 Let the truth be told…

So, you’ve had an opportunity to read Butch’s summary of our trip. Now, let me tell you what REALLY happened! (From a non-boater’s perspective of course.) To be honest, I was a hot mess when we arrived to the boat. Two days prior,…

#8 Getting home

Pensacola FL (actually just a couple of miles west of there, at Elberta, AL) to Knoxville TN, by river. July 2024. 890 miles. 20 locks. By boat. Seven days! That is hauling a**, no matter how you look at it. I knew I wanted to try owning…

#7 Sad news

Sad news today... We lost Zoey on the 4th of July. She has gone to Fiddlers Green, home of lost sailors. She had a stroke on Tuesday and was gone on Thursday. The boat is going to seem really empty for a long time. Zoey loved traveling on…

#6 RV or boat?

So, why am I on this adventure? I’d love to say that living most of my life in Michigan surrounded by water inspired an undeniable dream to sail or that canoeing halfway across that state with 19 other eleven year old Girl Scouts left me…

#5 What’s next?

July 6th we head for the boat in a rental car. If all is well at the boat, currently located near Pensacola, just on the Alabama side of the bay, we'll be bound for Knoxville up the river. We'll be taking this route, Mobile to the Tombigbee…