Executive summary: We bought a boat! It has headroom. We paid cash. It is a long way away from home. Using a buyer’s broker is a good thing.
Now here’s the story…
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Planning is fun, right?
Planning is half the fun, they say. Based on how fun the planning half has been, the actual Loop itself should be a blast!
I’ve run across a couple great Great Loop planning blog posts lately that have really inspired me. These are people on the loop already, but who have taken the time to describe some of their planning. I need to reach out and see if the bloggers would like to add to my collection of planning stories here at greatloopfi.
Speaking of planning, we have been going a bit deeper in our planning lately.
Continue reading “Planning is fun, right?”Headroom Project…Your input wanted
Lance has developed pretty good radar over the past 50 years that he has been 6’4”+. He usually does not get caught unawares with an unexpected head bash.
Of course, most of the places we hang out have 8’ ceilings and the doorways are plenty tall.
It wasn’t always that way. Our first apartment was in a basement. The bathroom was a little closet in the kitchen/living room/bedroom. You had to step into the kitchen area to wash your hands. There was a cast iron sewer line hanging from the ceiling right outside the bathroom door with a connection fitting that was in just the right (wrong?) place for a painful, middle-of-the-night wake-up.
Fortunately, that only lasted for a few months before we moved on, and we haven’t had to deal with the headroom situation. Until now.
Continue reading “Headroom Project…Your input wanted”Our plans. Written in sand.
It has been fun to look at how some others have been able to make the loop happen. Here are a few of our current plans, from a financial perspective.
As is the case when you are several years out, the plans are fluid. They are “written in sand” and easily changed.
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