A Boston Diversion ... of Sorts

A Boston Diversion ... of Sorts

No weekend getaway this past weekend. Well, we got away, but not for R&R. When your sister is moving and asks for help, there’s only one thing to do! This weekend we headed north to Boston to help Lin move. We had planned to leave at 0300 on Sunday morning in order to get there and return the one-way rental car on the other end by 4pm later that afternoon. Gone are the days when a 10-11 hour drive would be taken with a grain of salt. Now we need to stop to eat, pee or stretch every couple hours or so. It makes this 575 trip seem quite long... really long, in fact.

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There to Here - What's Next?

There to Here - What's Next?

Making a major life decision doesn't happen overnight … at least for us it didn't. Some things were a certainty. Owning a business and working 60-70 hours a week was exhausting and couldn't go on forever. We didn't have enough savings or investments to retire and we still had kids in school who would soon be heading off to college. We hadn't made any definitive decisions. We wrestled constantly with what should come next. How do people change the course of their lives? What needs to happen?

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Blue View – Protecting a Shore Cable

Blue View – Protecting a Shore Cable

If you've ever had to replace an electrical shore cable, you know how expensive it is. As I mentioned in last week's blog, the insulation had deteriorated on our shore power cable, and we needed to replace it. After shopping around, the best price we could find for a 50 foot, 30 amp cable was $87 ...  a lot to pay for what is nothing more than a heavy-duty extension cord..

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