The Friday Night That Started it All

For as long as we have been married, my husband and I have talked about leaving it all, buying some business on an island, and living the simple life.  Every once in a while we would pretend to get serious and look around at businesses on islands; we looked into beach bars, restaurants, and even a sailboat that did day charters.  The sailboat charter business was the one we really wanted, but to quit our jobs and sell everything we own to move to an island and buy a charter business still seemed absolutely insane to us.  So, we would close our computers and continue with the daily grind, but hey, at least we could dream.

As consultants for a Big Four firm in Washington DC, working 15 hour days is all we know how to do, and last year when my husband lost 100 hours of vacation days because he had accrued too much and not taken enough, well, we hit a breaking point.  It was not one event, but a culmination of things that made us realize there was no way we could wait until retirement to do this, because at this pace we would die off early from stress.  

So, we did what most people do on Friday nights (just kidding) and started scouring YouTube for anything island related.  We wanted an escape and HGTV had run out of "Island Hunter" shows that we had not watched 100 times a piece, so, we needed new material and YouTube was a jackpot!  Hours upon hours of funny animal videos to buying a business on an island, to island life...we were in heaven.  Then, we stumbled upon videos of different couples sailing around the world.  What?!?!  Who knew this was even an option?!?  Well, those YouTube videos turned into google searches which turned into buying every book Amazon had to offer on the topic, and finally to us realizing, this was our path....now, where to start....