Lance & Brenda's Loop + Exploring Others' Planning Stories
Stories of how others were able, financially, to do America’s Great Loop
Talk about Great Loop financial backstories! One of the most comprehensive and transparent ones you will find is by Technomadia.
They have an excellent post about the thought processes behind buying and paying for their 4788 Bayliner. This particular post really opened my eyes to some possibilities I had never considered.
First, they discuss what they learned that had them increasing their original budget.
Continue reading “Technology Enabled Nomads- Technomadia”
[Book Review. This is the book that first piqued our interest in the Great Loop. Here’s a review through a “financial backstory” lens. ]
Honey, Let’s Get a Boat by Ron and Eva Stob is the book that really started it all. The Stobs travelled the loop in 1994 and published a book about it 1999. They went on to form the “America’s Great Loop Cruiser’s Association”, the AGLCA, which continues today.
The Stobs were in their fifties when they were ready for a break in their careers, a sabbatical, if you will.
Continue reading “Buy a Boat, Sell the Boat, Start a Movement – Stob”
When I start reading a new Great Loop blog, I go right to the first post. The first ever post. The “this was our planning and how we were able to do the loop” post. Sometimes I have to scroll through years of archives to find it, but I go back to the beginning.
I’m always a bit disappointed when the first post is Day One of the trip.
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