Hard Top

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Online guitar lessons. When we’re on the move, it’s a pretty darn good solution. Plus, I’m learning, too—jamming the E minor and A major chords, and making up ridiculous lyrics to make my girl laugh. Back in the Turks and Caicos our fabric bimini really bit the dust. We’d hated … Read More

Fifteen Years On

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Ali and I realized recently that this month marks 15 years since we moved aboard Bumfuzzle and kicked off this life. Everything before nomadism now feels like a different life entirely. While we experienced life from the perspective of a steady day-to-day suburban childhood to a never-know-what’s-around-the-next-corner adulthood, our kids … Read More

Back Where We Belong

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Well, after a week in the work yard, one of these boats is ready to go back in the water. One of these years, when we’re in a country that doesn’t get paid $85/hr to do basic labor on a boat, we’ll give the bottom a good sanding and skim … Read More

Florida Boat Yard

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I’d been promising the kids their first motorcycle rides, so when I was set to leave the next day, there was no more delaying. I remember my first ride as a seventh-grader on the back of a friend’s dad’s motorcycle. He went so far as to pull a wheelie going … Read More