So here I am, yet another 'burned-out' engineer who loves to travel, meet people and enjoy life. [...]Not the sort of thing found in the office - right? So, with a background in international engineering, wilderness survival and the MOST important: swing dancer this new liveaboard begins a fine phase of life in beautiful, rural coastal Virginia. I love travel, people, foods and languages, but am running a little low on cartilage, so I plan to let the dainty pocket yacht Milenka do the long range work and I'll save the rest for dancing.

I had a comment "Oh, so I suppose that you're going to be spending every weekend with your new mistress?" meaning my 'new' sailboat. That idea is so true, the relationship with a sailboat is practically that of a paramour and the Czech language has a sweet, slightly salacious word for such a [...]

relationship: "Milenka" Czech, feminine, meaning 'My little lover girl / my little mistress.' The name fits.