I remember when we were first talking about living aboard and cruising. Basically, it’d be like being on permanent vacation, right? I couldn’t imagine wanting to do other things.
Fast-forward a couple of years and we were getting itchy feet. Friends were talking about an inland trip they had taken, and suddenly, instead of wondering why they had left the boat for a week, I was wondering how we could do the same.
It wasn’t that I didn’t like the boat or our cruising lifestyle. Or even the work on the boat. No, it was simply that I wanted to do something different.
I think that people who are attracted to the cruising lifestyle – wanting to go new places – tend to want to not only go places they can reach by boat. Or even if they could go by boat, sometimes want to get there faster than the boat would allow.
And so we take a vacation from the boat.
Over the years, we’ve taken “vacations” to visit family and friends, spend a summer camping through the US west, go to Africa, and travel inland to interesting sites near where we were cruising. We’ve done weekends away for a birthday treat, or to see a concert. Friends have taken cruises and even done a bareboat charter in a totally different part of the world.
Just like living ashore, sometimes a vacation is just what you need!
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