An Uncommon Departure
Leaving town by airplane, train, or driving are common.
Nearly half a century ago, August 18, 1972, my wife Jane and I set sail on our 46-foot home-built and designed dream boat from the far western end of the Great Lakes in Minnesota.
Selling everything, we only packed our boat with essentials, bicycles, books and tools.
It would be ten years before we acquired another motor vehicle.
We were going where the wind blew, when the spirit moved us, and the price was right; fishing and foraging as we went.
This adventure was a glorious lark and would turn out to be the very best years of our lives.
On our maiden voyage, we sailed the Great Lakes to Buffalo, the Erie Canal to the Hudson River, and south to NYC. It was blowing and snowing October 20th when we tied up at the ship museum dock in lower Manhattan. Someone was obviously telling us something. Turn south to Florida...we did.
P. S.
Back in Wisconsin we had been looked upon as radical misfits. In Florida, on the other hand, we stood out as straight arrows. Everything is relative (where there is a will there is a relative).
Thus began a life long adventuresome adventure that generated four books.
Our dear friend Professor Skip Koloski had this to say, “anyone that criticizes you has never had an original thought in their entire lives.”
John Grimsrud, December 28, 2018
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