- Turns out our housing is still available in Key West. For now.
- We still have airfare booked from Columbia to Key West on September 5. It’s on award tickets so dates can be changed, if needed.
- We really need to get back to Key West to get started on our winter events. Most things we can do remotely but there’s a number of face-to-face meetings that need to happen
- There’s not enough hours in the day, days in the week, to get the boat where we need it to be. A trip all the way to Key West would take more than 2 months, without stops. We know when we start the loop we don’t want to be on a strict time table.
- There isn’t a surveyor within 5 hours of Omaha or one willing to travel (without crazy fees) to survey the boat
- The boat has to be surveyed to get insurance (still waiting to see if an in-water will suffice)
- The boat has to have insurance to stay in the slip
- Sean is committed to working every weekend now through Labor Day
- The house still hasn’t sold. And if it sells now on a quick sale we’d be hard pressed to get the contents sold/moved before we need to be gone.
- Moving the boat OTR just to the Lake would be $7 to $10 k; the flybridge has to come down and other technical aspects plus getting it out of the marina without a travel lift would be a real challenge. Moving it to Key West is not even a possibility.

Making Plans
We’ve had a whole week now to work on our plan. It’s been the most back and forth jumbled up mixed up mess on top of trying to catch up with work, house showings, research and learning how to start and monetize a blog (which for now, I’m putting on the back burner). But here’s what we do know, in a chicken/egg sort of way: