Many of you may recall that I bought an old 46' Cheoy Lee trawler. I made it operational, quit my job, and my wife and I, two pitbulls, and three cats left Stamford Connecticut in September 2011. With many mishaps and adventures along the way, we made it up to Albany New York, and finally as far south as Green Cove Springs, Florida (past Jacksonville on the St. John's River). We had gone to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and fell in love with its beauty again. I bought ten acres of land to build on. Life had other ideas.

In August of 2013, I felled a tree. It landed with a loud WHOMP. Then I woke up on the ground. I wasn't dead, but I came close according to doctors. I broke my neck. We stayed in New York in a little cabin in the woods we were renting through the holidays. We returned to Florida with two dogs, three cats, and a horse.

We had sold Drift Away in the interim. Know the old joke about the two happiest days in a sailor's life? Not true. Selling Drift Away was painful, but we had a new goal. I was having difficulty because of paralysis in both feet and my right hand and so not much work got done. But what was amazing was learning that we had Sasquatch around us. Yep. That's right. I always thought Sasquatch was a myth. Not real. Oh, they're real all right. My Bleecker Mountain Life blog was peppered with photos of footprints, hand prints on our car, vocalizations, and the like.

Oh, blogs. Well, many of you know that I had written magazine articles. I also have a Drift Away blog that's still getting hits, almost a half million right now. On my Bleecker Mountain Life blog, as on my Drift Away blog, people said I should write a book. So I did. I published it in February. Most books about Sasquatch have a handful of reviews on Amazon. The ones published years ago have 20 or 30. Mine has 82 right now, but what I'm most proud of is the 4.5 out of 5 star rating. I just published a novel in November. That only has 3 reviews so far, but all 5 star. I'm deep into my third book, another about Sasquatch. Perhaps my fourth will be about cruising on Drift Away.

Since I can't swing a hammer worth a shit anymore, we've decided to sell our beautiful property in New York and buy a place in Florida. I'm retired. It's the law.

There's going to be one name missing here. Our buddy Jon. Jon would be pleased to know that I bought a Nikon and also turned into a photographer of sorts. And I always wondered if Jon gave up film and went DSLR.