Sharon and I weren't always boaters. As a matter of fact, we were what boaters call dirt people. We loved that lifestyle, and as dirt people we were staging ourselves to become fulltimers. Fulltimers are dirt people who abandon the materialistic lifestyle and live in a RV as they roam around like nomads. We were set to become fulltimers when Sharon retired. We already had the RV and the trailer to haul the Harleys. Yes, Sharon had her own Harley, a 2007 Softail Deluxe. Mine (as of this posting) is a 2006 Electra Glide Ultra Classic, the Cadillac of baggers. In October of 2006, Sharon booked us on a Mothership Kayaking Cruise in Alaska for July 2007 and our world was soon to be turned upside down. The owners of the above pictured boat are a husband and wife team who had this vessel custom built so that they could ditch their legal professions and cruise Alaska. While you are cruising Alaska why not offer your boat for hire? Well anyway, together with another couple from downunder New Zealand, Ron and Mary, we set out on the M/V Abyssinia for the trip of a life time. More on the trip later through other Flashback postings. On the return trip to Juneau, Sharon thought to herself, "We can do this". Let me say that Sharon didn't have to twist my arm at all. Basically we will be exchanging one title for another, liveaboard for fulltimer, and Sharon traded in her Harley leathers for a bathing suit.
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