Switching Places

I swear we have switched places. It is the most confounding thing. Kermit sits in the corner night after night reading books written by former loopers, exhorting me to read them too. He has stuff spread all over the living room - charts, boxes of stuff, information - that he insists we need to have close at hand so we are prepared for the trip. He searches the web everyday for the best prices on all sorts of items that are "crucial" for the trip. But I don't. I don't want to. I don't think I need to.

Usually I am the one deep in study with stuff spread out all over and Kermit is the one complaining. But he is completely and totally enthralled with every detail. And I am not. I am excited to be sure. But I am confident that we will be ready. I know that we will do lots of research prior to arriving in a place. We won't remember and we can't take all those prints of fascinating places with us on the boat. The sheer weight will sink us.

I keep remembering all those folks we met at the Spring Rendezvous who said you go on the trip with the boat you have. We don't have the boat we had last summer any more. It has changed so much over the winter that I am afraid I won't recognize it when we launch in the spring.

So I wait and work hard on building my business so I can work on it from the boat while we are gone. I have been to many of the places we will see on the way to Chicago. I am from Chicago. So I am covered until Labor Day with research. Kermit will have it covered!