Day 1

Hello everyone,
This isn't really day 1 unless we're talking about the first day of this blog. As far as the adventure goes it might be day -180 or +180, depending on what you consider part of the adventure.

Please forgive my writing. I tend to write run on sentences and put commas where they don't belong, hopefully this won't be too distracting.

This blog is to keep our family and friends up to date with what we're doing and where we are and at the same time be educational for others that may consider a similar adventure to ours. We hope the education is along the lines of what to do but in many cases it is likely to be what not to do. We're certain to make some mistakes, hopefully not catastrophic ones.

So for those that only know one or neither of us, "we" are Susan and Brian. We met on a tour of Vietnam and Cambodia in October 2013, hence the name of our yet to be purchased boat, Good Morning Vietnam. Though it is often said to be bad luck to change the name of a boat, it seems to actually be done quite regularly. So rather than live with a name that means nothing to us, we're going to change the name.

So today, Sunday, November 30 2014 we are three days away from having a boat we've made an offer on surveyed (inspected by a professional) and taking her on a sea trial (test drive). We've looked at several boats over the last couple of months and have settled on a 46 foot Hunter as the boat that will meet our needs. It's larger than we were originally looking at but to get the headroom I need and the cabin layout we wanted, this seems to be the best boat. A couple weeks back we made an offer on a 2003 Hunter 466 that is currently in Palmetto, Florida. The offer was accepted by the current owner so now we're in the process of finalizing the deal. Tuesday night Susan and I will meet at the Tampa airport and then be at the dock Wednesday morning, along with our broker and the surveyor, for the survey and sea trial.

I could go on and on about what we've done up to now (let's just say we've done a lot of reading and studying) and what our plans are, but I'm going to leave all that for later installments.

Being as this is my first blog and my first post I don't know how this works but I hope you are able to comment, or at least send emails to me if you'd like. Perhaps more on that later.

Brian