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This website is mostly about the craziest and most irresponsible decision we ever made...
A few years ago, we sold our home in Alexandria, VA, put the money in the bank, put everything in storage, bought a sailboat, and left the country. We got the boat in Georgetown, MD, re-commissioned her as "Rascal" and sailed down the Chesapeake Bay to Hampton, VA where we joined the Salty Dawg Rally for a 1,500 mile North Atlantic ocean journey to The Caribbean. We left Hampton the day after the official hurricane season and arrived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, nine days later. The trip was grueling (more about that elsewhere). Since then, we have been sailing through the Caribbean island chain anchoring here, docking there, a day here, a month there.
Home? Home is where we drop the anchor. We expect to live on Rascal for 2-5 years until we can't physically do this anymore or don't want to. Right now, however, we are living one of the greatest experiences of our lives and we're happy to share what we're doing with anyone who might be interested--or may need some encouragement to make their own crazy and irresponsible decision to just get up and go...
Rick and Linda Grimes
A few years ago, we sold our home in Alexandria, VA, put the money in the bank, put everything in storage, bought a sailboat, and left the country. We got the boat in Georgetown, MD, re-commissioned her as "Rascal" and sailed down the Chesapeake Bay to Hampton, VA where we joined the Salty Dawg Rally for a 1,500 mile North Atlantic ocean journey to The Caribbean. We left Hampton the day after the official hurricane season and arrived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, nine days later. The trip was grueling (more about that elsewhere). Since then, we have been sailing through the Caribbean island chain anchoring here, docking there, a day here, a month there.
Home? Home is where we drop the anchor. We expect to live on Rascal for 2-5 years until we can't physically do this anymore or don't want to. Right now, however, we are living one of the greatest experiences of our lives and we're happy to share what we're doing with anyone who might be interested--or may need some encouragement to make their own crazy and irresponsible decision to just get up and go...
Rick and Linda Grimes
[If you're looking for Rick Grimes of AMC's The Walking Dead, you've found him BUT I don't do that zombie stuff anymore. I've moved on and you can see I'm into a lot of other things. If you want to see a highly fictionalized story of my life (half the stuff they show never happened), you should go to this link and it will take you there...Thanks for visiting...]