Where to Go

[rakuqueen]

We plan to leave next week. We know everything will not be done, some of the unconpleted projects are stashed under our bed. We are traveling w/ a 16 year old girl who got her licience 2 weeks ago. I know, we should have left two weeks ago! This has been a dream of ours for many years, my husband took early retirement. If he had stayed we would have had more money, but who knows he might have been dead from the stress. He has an irregular heart beat that would occur when ever there was lots of stress, he has only one onset since retiring in December.
Our depth sounder is shot, so we have ordered a new one, need to clean out our boat storage area. Most of that goes on the boat, store our car and we are off.
Wehave told our daughter we would come back for her senior year, so we will only be gone for 14 months, unless she changes her mind.
Love to read all the advise, and Stacey hope to see you next winter.
Jane

[WHOOSH]

Jane, will you have a SSB aboard? I ask because, when cruising with our young teen son, we found it more difficult to locate other teenagers than we expected and I''d bet your daughter would appreciate a little ''coordinating help'' in tracking some down on occasion.

If you will, don''t overlook the Cruiseheimers Net (8.104 USB at I believe 0900 Eastern, a Marine SSB freq) and also the Waterway Net (7.268 LSB at 0745 Eastern) if you have a ham license aboard (or just want to listen in). You''ll hear both Nets working cruisers all up/down the coast plus the Bahamas, at the least. Good luck!

Jack

[staceyneil]

Jane,
Where are you leaving from and heading to? Perhaps we''ll see you. We''ll be travelling with our 7 yr old daughter (although she ACTS like she''s 16 sometimes, sheesh!)
Our boat is "namaste"...hope to see you!
Stacey
www.sailnamaste.com

[rakuqueen]

Stacey,
We are leaving Houston and going down the icw around fl and heading up the east coast.
We hope to end up in Cape Cod for the summer and then back down the east coast to the Caribbean for the winter and then back to Houston for the summer and our daughter''s senior in high school. That is the plan, many people tell us we''ll be lucky to get to Washington D.C. That''s ok, we can always drive to Cape Cod for a few weeks. All our family is there and we have some weddings to go to this summer.
I wanted to get my ham license before going and it just didn''t work out. That is something I hope to do while traveling.
While we are in the US we have our cell phones and we have a verison wireless card for the laptop.
Stacey, somtimes my 16 year old acts as if she is seven. They should get along great on certain days only known to them!!
Jane