Sadly it had the opposite effect. Despite being seasick most of the time, she absolutely loved it! Since we went through a hurricane, all six of us bonded on that trip and we stayed in touch over the next couple of years. Then when my marriage went totally kaput, Patrick and I got together. Hence Yellow Rose became Brick House. So where did the new name come from? Rebecca explains that it just depends who is asking.
It is also about how we were able to go sailing. He was in construction and I was a real estate agent. So we bought houses, fixed them up and sold them to make money for our trip. We also worked our regular jobs really hard, saving money to go and then finally we set off. Still, we did run out of money around year seven and stopped in Kwajalein in the Marshal Islands and worked for about a year and three months. We built our kitty back up again and then continued on. Rebecca and Patrick are well known vloggers in the cruising world.
She explains that it was mostly down to Patrick though. Retaining its value, positively. But cosmetically perfect…no thanks. Right on top of it all the time? No way…I want to enjoy the days I have left, and die with an imperfect boat, but a wonderful last few decades of my life!
I felt my own desires rather than what Patrick would want, rising to the surface. It felt like a switch went off.. Would Patrick approve of Michael? Who cares.. Better in some ways…different. A new chapter, completely different in many ways. Patrick was a great guy and partner for a long time.
Michael is so overly accepting of this. Michael seems to understand me better than I understand myself. He finds new ways now to deal with my moods, and they actually are working.
Instead of feeling like I want to kill him, I feel even more affection and caring for him on the other side of what could be a negative evening or weekend. I still am telling him how to do things on occasion, and still being bitchy here and there though hopefully now with less intensity and more love.
He is handling my transition very well, and somehow turning my bad moods around. I am so grateful that I found Michael. If we last and continue on the beautiful relationship that we certainly have the best of foundations for, it is because of him..
I am trying every so hard to not let that be the case…. I definitely looked for a relationship way too fast. But when I look back and think about when I met Michael, and what attracted me to him…my intuition was in overdrive and I was listening to it. There were even times in the last 6 months that I felt he was really really wrong for me. He got me across an ocean.
He was always the MVP. He always held it together to make this trip happen. He still had his heart open to me, and still did his best throughout all the curve balls I threw him. What incredible strength. I have always thought way too much about the future. Michael keeps me in the present so so well. The past is the past and neither one of us are too hung up on the past.
But I am way too hung up on the future. Here in Grenada, and hopefully for the foreseeable short term future…I will be living in the present. I will be enjoying today. I will be loving Michael as best, and totally and completely as I possibly can, today.
I will be enjoying my day today. I will be more spontaneous and not be so goal oriented. I will use my time in Grenada to relax and enjoy each day as they come.
But for today I will enjoy life more, relax more, and put a lot of effort in to loving Michael today. And tomorrow. I will dance more, communicate more, kiss more, sing more, and relax more, and sail slower. Sounds like a great retirement to me, for both of us! Farewell Patrick Childress — Sail in Peace my best friend…. Finally ready to cross the Atlantic…here are some of the things we had to do before we could leave…and one thing almost completely stopped us!
When the world or some book says it is? I will struggle in my first relationship right? Why put off or postpone the struggle? Why not work through it now? Life is short. I could be dead by next month! And then what did I gain by waiting? So many people ask me this question.. But I can only do what my heart and soul tells me to do.
No women captains that contacted with me clicked with me. Not many men did either. So I looked locally for someone that I could at least be friends with and share a common goal with.. Michael and I clicked from day 1.
We are now sailing together full time. Not without bumps for sure, and this may not be forever. We both know this. But at least we are both mutually gaining something by doing this trip together. I hope that make sense to you. I should not really care what people think about my movements in life.. There is nothing to prove by not moving on… by not living your life, doing what you yearn to do. I have a friend who has mourned for 8 years now…. I love being with a friend full time, I love working through my issues with someone to hold my hand as I do it, and Michael does that so well.
YES…I probably cry every single day for what I have lost. And I may always cry that my best friend never got to see what I saw today. I have a lot of life yet to live, a lot of the world still to see, and yes a lot of love yet to share. I will allow myself to mourn for years if I want to. I will not try to make every beautiful moment one of laughter.. You can never ever know how a widow feels without walking in their exact exact shoes.
You can never know how I feel, or what it means…. We are both safe in Grenada.. These are NOT the sounds you want to hear as you trailer your boat to the launch ramp. I was about a mile away from the ramp at the time, and looking in the rearview mirror I immediately noticed Betty Jane, my Mystic 20 Catboat, was now riding a good deal However, it recently occurred to me Following a taco dinner and brief nap at anchor, the Swan 59 Icebear set sail from Falmouth, Antigua, weighing anchor at about 20 minutes to midnight.
The first passage of the season had begun. After all, how can you pick a highlight on, say, Day 2? I broke that rule, though, on a recent sail through the Exumas, the chain of Bahamian islands that extends in a southeasterly direction Brown completed the What has got to be one of the coolest, if not the coolest race of the year is set to kickoff this weekend—on Halloween no less. Known as the Globe 5.
The race In this episode of Point of SAIL, sponsored by West System Epoxy, Principal Editor Adam Cort talks with Sam Holmes, a solo-sailor who has not only logged some serious bluewater miles but brought thousands of fans along for the ride through his many disarmingly unpretentious Real Estate.
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