This COVID Crap is Getting to Me
My, how the world has changed. I’m not talking about politics or COVID-19, I’m talking about my life.
I have always believed that our lives are like books. We live through chapter after chapter. When you turn the page on one chapter, you open the page to another chapter. There it is before you, a white page waiting to be written on.
Well, I turned a page. A big page. Maybe I’m moving on to Book 4 in my life.
I sold the Victory. I know, I can hardly believe it myself. That boat has been my home and part of my identity for over ten years. Now here I am, homeless.
I’m looking for an apartment in the San Diego area but wouldn’t turn my back on a nice place in Mexico. The cost of living there is so much cheaper.
I have always believed that our lives are like books. We live through chapter after chapter. When you turn the page on one chapter, you open the page to another chapter. There it is before you, a white page waiting to be written on.
Well, I turned a page. A big page. Maybe I’m moving on to Book 4 in my life.
I sold the Victory. I know, I can hardly believe it myself. That boat has been my home and part of my identity for over ten years. Now here I am, homeless.
I’m looking for an apartment in the San Diego area but wouldn’t turn my back on a nice place in Mexico. The cost of living there is so much cheaper.
The Victory Under Full Sail
The couple that bought the boat are exactly who I expected to by it. He is English, so he’s not afraid of ferro-cement boats. He has spent his life on the sea working on various working boats and charter yachts.
She is American. A lawyer. She was transferred to her firm’s London office where she met Simon. The rest, as they say, is history.
They now plan to sail the Victory to San Francisco to visit her cousin who just had a baby and prepare the boat for offshore cruising. They then want to see the world. I wish them the best of luck and will follow their blog. I know that the Victory has gone to a good home and will be where he was designed to be, on the open ocean.
As for me? What am I going to do now? I don’t really know. Many years ago, I had thought that when I got too old to sail, I would buy an RV and explore the good ol’ U.S. of A. I might do that. I want to take a long road trip through Mexico and to Belize. I need a partner for that adventure. Anyone wanna sign up?
One thing for sure, I will continue writing. I’m well into the new Ted Higuera book. I’m tentatively calling it Back to Vietnam.
In this new adventure, Ted gets word that his uncle, a Green Beret who went MIA in North Vietnam in 1969, might still be alive and held prisoner in Vietnam. Of course, that sets off a chain of events that take Ted and his gang to the other side of the world. I’m really having fun with this book. I can’t wait to share it with you.
I’m also thinking seriously about spinning off a new series with a character introduced in The Panama Murders. Captain Collin MacGregor helps Catrina solve the mystery and will be a main character in the next Catrina Flaherty book. But I’m going to take him back in time to the start of his adventure.
He was the crime beat reporter for the Seattle PI. When the PI went under, he started writing true crime books. His wife was murdered, and he desperately needs to solve that case. Then he drops everything and runs away from the world. He takes off on his sailboat to parts unknown. Along the way he gets involved in various mysteries in different ports and writes about them to sustain his voyages. I can’t wait to get started.
Other than that, I intend to do some traveling. When I go, look for me to keep you posted on this blog. I love writing about my travels.
In this new adventure, Ted gets word that his uncle, a Green Beret who went MIA in North Vietnam in 1969, might still be alive and held prisoner in Vietnam. Of course, that sets off a chain of events that take Ted and his gang to the other side of the world. I’m really having fun with this book. I can’t wait to share it with you.
I’m also thinking seriously about spinning off a new series with a character introduced in The Panama Murders. Captain Collin MacGregor helps Catrina solve the mystery and will be a main character in the next Catrina Flaherty book. But I’m going to take him back in time to the start of his adventure.
He was the crime beat reporter for the Seattle PI. When the PI went under, he started writing true crime books. His wife was murdered, and he desperately needs to solve that case. Then he drops everything and runs away from the world. He takes off on his sailboat to parts unknown. Along the way he gets involved in various mysteries in different ports and writes about them to sustain his voyages. I can’t wait to get started.
Other than that, I intend to do some traveling. When I go, look for me to keep you posted on this blog. I love writing about my travels.
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