You ARE STILL cruisers!

When we started cruising, we decided that our time was ours. We did not care what others think, we are the captain of our boat!!!!

We did NOT go cruising to to spend a couple of days in a port, then move on and say we knew it. If that was the idea, why not just take a cruise ship and a land tour? It's the same. We did NOT go cruising to spend months (or 1,000 days) at sea. We love to sail, but sailing was only PART of why we chose this type of life! You got to consider the whole package!

I often laugh at people who sail into an area for a few days and then try to tell us ALL about it. We have spent much more time in the Sea of Cortez than we thought we would, but we like it. We moved out of the Sea to head south until this family emergency hit us. We were just talking to some friends (there boat is in French Poly just now) about commuter cruising. They like it a LOT. They explained to us, when we were wondering the same thing, that after you were cruising for a year or more, it's no longer so special. Don't get me wrong, we love it, but like anything else, after a while, it's just living.

They like to spend about half time on the boat, sometimes more. They said that coming back to a house after being on the boat for a year, makes the house special again. Then, after 6 months or so in the house, you go back to the boat and find that its special once more.

And you get to restock on the crap that goes bad...

Greg