{"id":225,"date":"2013-09-21T18:55:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/?p=225"},"modified":"2014-06-22T07:06:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T14:06:57","slug":"almost-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/easethemain.com\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"Almost Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever since I first met my husband (in college) he has dreamed of sailing around the world.\u00a0 It took him about ten years to convince me to join him and another five years of preparing.\u00a0 Soon we will be untied from our dock.\u00a0 It\u2019s true that the hardest part of embarking on an extended sailing trip is actually leaving.\u00a0 It is an unbelievable amount of planning.\u00a0 Getting the boat ready, renting our the house, homeschooling, vaccinations, medicines, provisioning\u2026it\u2019s enough to discourage anyone from realizing a dream; especially those of us who are an innocent bystander of someone else\u2019s dream.\u00a0 \u00a0But dreams are contagious and I am now eager to set sail for faraway lands.<\/p>\n

I’ve realized that the only difference between someone who says that they want to do something big and someone who actually does something big is not genius or inspiration.\u00a0 It\u2019s the drudgery of planning and working the plan. \u00a0But I most confess, we probably over prepared for this trip. \u00a0My husband is a very safety conscious and a detail-oriented person, and I am a Nervous Nellie so, well …. there you have it.<\/p>\n

We are very excited to shove off – September 28.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0And in addition to the thrill of traveling to new places we are even more thrilled to leave the grind of Silicon Valley and have quality time as a family.\u00a0\u00a0 We are going to ease the main<\/em>, spill some wind from our sails, and just slow down.<\/p>\n

Where does all the stuff go? \u00a0Time to start purging!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Getting Closer – We are almost done provisioning.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Donating our car to Car Talk<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

We got 17 years out of it. \u00a0Not bad.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Dante getting use to his new room.<\/strong>\"DSCN8775\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Watching the America’s Cup.\u00a0The Kiwis almost capsize this race.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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