Ok, so I dont know when we got the idea, or really who it came from, so no date on the blog. But I wanted to talk about the whole reason I am here and doing this.
My BF and I traveled south for a wedding recently, and while that is a long story (not to be told here) we returned with one idea on our brains. We went in late November 08, just in time to exit before the snow and the cold really took hold in Chi. Upon our return it was here. It was here in all its glory, the snow, the cold, the works.
Then it was born. The idea. How do we escape this. The temp in ST was 85, the temp in in Chi sunk that next month to -15F. Prompting my BF to text me about the 100F swing in temp. For those of you who dont know, -15F is so cold (not including the windchill) that when you breath the air is too cold. It catches in your lungs causing you to cough. Your face is numb after only a few mins in this cold, and it goes all the way down to your bones.
Our answer at the time seemed simple -we have to move. Forget all of the whys we are here.. and what not, right now we have to plan an escape. But, during our weeks stay in ST, we saw the price of paradise and we were not amused. If we thought the price of NY or even Naperville for that matter was high we were sadly mistaken. The place we saw were more than pricey. We could maybe afford a 2 bedroom hovel way in the mountains someplace, no beach, no view, no city water, for about $400k. OUCH.
Then we got an idea. An ad for the boat show was on a billboard. Hell if we had a boat, we wouldn’t have to decide right away what island, what price, what 2 bedroom. We could boat, live on the boat, and decide later. The boat show being 2 weeks away gave us an opportunity to live with the idea, swallow it a couple of time. Bounce it off the walls to see if it stuck or came back. It stuck.
We hit the boat show in Jan 14th hard. We did a 5 hour tour about. Before even before then, we were already hooked…
