Travel Adventures
Travel Adventures
After 23 years at Sci-Med/Boston Scientific and a total of 34 years in supply chain – first 7 years at Allen Bradley (now Rockwell Automation) in Milwaukee and then 3 years at Rosemount (now Emerson Electric) in Eden Prairie – the “Supply Chain Guru” as he has been called, has moved on. On Thursday, Matt, …
We officially “accepted the vessel” this week! What does that mean you ask? Well, after getting our survey results last Friday, we spent hours discussing the big to do list on the boat and all of the unknowns. On Monday, we finally agreed to throw out a lowball price to the owner. We weren’t sure …
Well, here we go…we got the results from the survey on Friday. There are quite a few unknowns…there was some metals detecked in the oil and we aren’t sure what that means. Chad has been calling some of the diesel mechanics we talked to but it is hard for them to say for sure what …
The weather was finally beautiful in Minnesota…not raining or windy so we decided to do a quick test run of our camping stuff. Chad found a great FREE spot near Henderson MN – only about 30 minutes from home. We packed everything up, including the 2 dogs and headed out after work at about 4:30. …
We are also getting ready to do some rooftop camping…hopefully in some remote places!! We are trying to be completely self sustaining for 2-3 days at a time – biggest worry is the bathroom!! We aren’t going to be able to camp in town or anything like Greg…he is able to “hide” the fact that …
This was written April 23, 2022. Change 1 After Chad spent a few hours on the boat last weekend, we have decided that we are moving forward with the purchase of Promises Kept! Next Friday, April 29th, we will have the survey (like a home appraisal) done. We will go over all the systems, …
April 24, 2022 If you are reading this blog I’m hoping that you have an interest in what Chad and I are doing and where we are. It is going to be an online journal of what we are doing and where we end up going. I plan to use this as a learning tool …
April 16, 2022 Well it seems that we might have found our “Loop” boat! We put in an offer last week and the owner countered and we accepted the offer on Monday!! Chad needs to see the boat in person before fully accepted so he is in Virginia now. Tomorrow morning he will meet with …
We are staying on the Indian River near Stuart Florida. Trawlerfest starts on Tuesday!! We are taking classes on anchoring, safety, living on a boat full time and maintenance. We will be able to tour all kinds of trawlers and talk to people that have done the loop. The above was written at the beginning …