I wanted to. I really did. I wanted to be the welcoming, open person I used to be, making new friends and being a good neighbour. And it is Friday, which, back when I was corporately-employed, used to be a regular day for socializing, gathering at a local pub or lounge with co-workers after a good week’s work. But I just couldn’t.
I’ve recently had my first experience in a Category 1 hurricane. On Tuesday September 6, 2016 the Category 1 Hurricane Newton slammed the Baja California peninsula from Los Cabos through La Paz and right up past Puerto Escondido. That’s where my husband John and I were with our sailboat, Ingenium. It then gathered more steam as it crossed the 80…
There are exceptions to every rule. Such as management of your fibromyalgia means not overdoing it and triggering a flare, even if you’ve recently changed things up and cut out medication, coffee, and wheat and are feeling really great. 😉 The exception to that rule is when you’re preparing for a hurricane and you live on a sailboat. Ahem. Hurricane Newton…
We’d been living on the water aboard Ingenium, our 40’ sailboat, for a little over two months. It was finally time to go further than Bahia San Carlos, off the northeastern coast of Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, further than the couple hours’ sailing we’d managed so far just outside the bay. New and rapidly becoming dear friends, Tom and Lynn…
No matter how much experience you have, when it comes time to consider whether to give up corporate life, the decision is tough. You know it is possible to achieve better quality of life when you step off the rat-race conveyor belt. But you also know elements of the change are going to hurt.