H Season Spoiler Alert Teaser Take Four
09 May 2016
If you're new to these Teaser Blogs, then you know that we've been dishing out all these Spoiler Alerts which are slowly Accelerating to a Speedy Climax.
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The research we were effecting and information we were gathering, (after all we didn't want to find ourselves up the river without a paddle, right?) was all revealing one evident piece of information.
"If we want to do this for H-Season..." hinted Dave,
"Yes..." I raised my eyebrows back at him,
"We have no choice but to jump in with both feet. Go out on a Limb" he said.
"I know."
Which kind of, almost, scared the Bejesus out of our anxious fingertips.
We sure as heck needed to research ourselves some Due Diligence. We asked a million questions, and then asked a million more. We asked questions of others, and we asked questions of ourselves.
And we did all that from the confines of our laptop keyboard, while sitting in the cockpit of Banyan, in the hot sweaty heat of days that is Grenada in September.
We wore our fingers to the bone, the letters off our keyboard, and the pixels off our screens using every bit of (sometimes) limited bandwidth we had to gather up our intel.
(Intel: abbreviation for Intelligence.)
"If we want to do this..." echoed Dave,
"Yes..." I looked at him, one eyebrow raised.
"We have to do it now, or the timings won't work"
"I know." I replied with an excited nervous anxious type of sigh.
You have to go Out on a Limb sometimes right?
Living this Cruising Lifestyle, for example, required us to go Out On A Limb. Do something different. Live outside the box. Or, as in our case, on a Boat, as it were.
We often get queried on our Water-Based, 40 feet of Space, Type of Lifestyle and Just "How did we Do It?" and the response is always, well, I don't know? We just did.
However, it was all a result of lots of research, lots of work, not without sacrifices, and then the final step? We just did. We stepped out of the confines our what was our Daily Life and turned our Dreams into Our Life.
All this consternation led us right back to square one. Just how much of a risk were we willing to take? Just how big was that Limb we were stepping out on? Just how far up that River of Risk were we heading (and did we have Paddles?)
And as the days slipped by, it was turning out to be a Do or Do Not type of decision. After all, isn't it Yoda who sagely murmurs:
"Do or Do Not. There is no Try".
And Our Answer was as simple as that. We could Do. Or Not Do.
If we opted To Do the road would veer one way, the possibilities endless, and the realities were numerical, factual and realistic.
And if we opted to Not Do? Could we walk away from One of Our Dreams? Would we walk away and always wonder What If? The truth of that matter was that we could. It was not a Do or Die type of scenario, it was more of which side of that fork in the road to take?
So, what did we do?
With one big lunge and one huge step, with fingers crossed and eyes wide open, we went out on that Limb. We bought into... something.
Without ever having seen, touched, felt, smelt...
OhEmGee and WTF? Seriously??
"So it's done" we said, as we toasted each other that evening, 8 months ago, enjoying sundowners in the cockpit.
"And now, we Execute..."
"Make it so, Capt'n"
And many months and miles later, we are at here at Just Now.
T-5 days, on Saturday, will have us back in one of the Canadian Provinces, and by Monday May 16th? Why we'll be fact to face with... all that Virtual Lurking and Dreaming and Planning we've been doing.
Will our Intel have been enough? Who knows. That'll be Our Adventure that we'll be sharing with y'all, won't it?
Stay tuned, at no Risk to you.