Latest Blog Posts - Mid-Life Cruising!
- Christmas on the Bayou & New Year's in Austin!Where has the time flown?! Other than my Christmas wish list, I haven't posted since before Thanksgiving! With the holidays & poor weather, the boat projects have taken a brief pause and we spent both Thanksgiving & Christmas day...
- Christmas Gift Ideas!It's Christmas time again and if you're like me, you find all sorts of cool stuff for yourself but nothing for everyone else on your list! Ken & I rarely shop for ourselves throughout the year, but in December we cave in .. there's so many...
- A New Bulkhead!After all the exterior projects on Nirvana, it was finally time for a project that Ken had been dreading ... replacing our rotten salon bulkhead. Luckily, it wasn't as difficult as Ken had feared. In the picture above, you can see how rot...
- This Pirate Looks at 50!Back in August of 2013, I was inspired to write my own list of goals after reading Jimmy Buffet's book, "A Pirate Looks At Fifty". I can't believe that post was over 3 years ago .. and I can't believe I'm already turning fifty this weeken...
- Working Hard, Playing A Little ..We've been back from Mexico almost two months now, and we've been busy on Nirvana! If you've been following us here or on our Facebook page, you know that we've added our new Plasteak handrails & our new Ipe companionway trim, installed our...
- Companionway TrimAfter replacing our rotten teak handrails with Plasteak, we needed to replace the rotten teak companionway trim and blocks. We didn't want to go plastic for the trim, but we also didn't want to go with teak. Instead, we chose Ipe wood. Li...
- Plasteak HandrailsSince our original teak handrails had rotted, Ken & I decided to replace them with Plasteak handrails. Plasteak is plastic, which means less maintenance. We don't want to have to maintain wooden handrails (and all those loops) while c...
- Isla Mujeres Tour, 2016!Last week, I added a video of our scooter rides through Isla Mujeres, Mexico. In the future, I hope to video more often, and I wish I would have gotten a lot more videos during our time in Mexico. However, I don't know if I can get accustomed t...
- A Slick Sliding Hatch!With plans of living on Nirvana, we needed to figure out a way to make our companionway hatch easier to move back and forth. The hath was really tough for me to move, making a need for quick entry or exit difficult.The first thing we needed to...
- Isla Mujeres by Scooter!With videos being the new rage, I thought I'd see what it's all about and put together a few clips from our scooter rides on Isla Mujeres. It was a blast riding around the island and the views were gorgeous. It's a simple & short vide...
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