Homelessness on the horizon....

A couple weekends ago, on a whim, hubs & I decided to take a super mini road trip and get away from it all! Friday at about 6:24pm we up and decided we were going to go somewhere! We left a little before 7pm and started driving south. We ended up in Rockport, a small coastal town near Corpus Christie. We thought we'd look at a couple of boats, well, we looked at the outside of one & crossed it off the list immediately. It's amazing how pictures can lie! I called on another boat that we wanted to see, but the broker couldn't be bothered to show it to us. {must be nice to be independently wealthy, cause he sure isn't making money selling boats} Luckily, I made friends with a local fish market lady and borrowed her key to at least access the dock where the boat was. We still didn't get to see the inside of the boat, but a close up visual of the outside showed us that the boat wasn't worth the amount they were asking. However, we didn't cross it off the list just yet, but we also haven't decided if we want to take on that big of a project. So the search continues....

Aside from the radio station playing music from the past 25 years & giving me the feeling of having my very own mix tape....the real plus side of our little getaway landed me with this most wonderfully king-sized bed!!

It was enormous and I may or may not have took a running jump & dove onto said bed! I could've stayed there forever, oh but if only I was independently wealthy!!

We have just over a week left on the trawler and then we will be back to being homeless. I had hoped that we would've bought our next boat by now, but this month has gone by incredibly fast & we just haven't found the boat we really want, yet. 

So, it looks like we will be back to square one...whatever that might be! 

And we're back living on a boat....But, it's not what you think! ;)

I've said it before, and I'll say it again....the boating community is some of the nicest people we have ever met!! We had numerous other boaters offer us their extra cabin when we so quickly became homeless. But knowing how small a boat can be, we didn't want to invade anyone's space that way.

We didn't however mind {too terribly much} invading family's space, when we crashed their vacation and spent 5 days with them on their 37' fifth wheel. Thanks again for that!! ;)

We then spent a week at an extended stay hotel and was starting to wonder where we would be living next, when we were offered a boat to stay on...score!! One of hubs' coworkers had just bought a 40' Marine Trader trawler and wasn't planning to move aboard for a little while. So when he offered to let us live on it through the month of September....we graciously accepted!! 

Now, because it's not ours I don't feel right about sharing photos of someone else's boat, especially without their permission. But please go do a bing/google search on this type of boat {if you don't already know what it looks like} so you can see what awesome digs we temporarily have!! 

It is seriously so huge compared to Irie! It's like a mansion in terms of size comparison.... About twice a day, I hear hubs saying, "how he is going to have a hard time getting me back on a sailboat" ....especially all these small ones he's been looking at lately! And yes, all boats are small compared to what we are currently staying on! :) 

As much as I do love power boats, I know fueling them would be quite costly and wind is free....blah, blah, blah! :)  We will be back on a sailboat....soon, I hope!! In fact, we are planning a mini-road trip this weekend to go look at some boats, so wish us luck in our search for the next boat!