We  are Annel and Steve Dickson, We are high school sweethearts. We have raised two wonderful girls and have three grandchildren. But we have a dream to live full-time on a boat. This is our story of how we make this happen.

When we get our boat she will be named Gracie Lou. I was going to start this blog after we got our boat and do views from our ports of stay. But decided to start earlier and show our path on how we make our dream come true.

In October we took our  first big step  Steve quit his job of 20 years with Waste Management and moved to North Dakota to work in the oil fields.

We planned on me staying in Spokane and working,  but being away from each other was harder than we thought it would be so end of January I left my job of 9 years and took a month to get the house we had built 20 plus years ago ready to put on the market. Then the first part of March we packed up what we could fit in the expedition and I moved to North Dakota to be with Steve.

I have now been and Newtown, North  Dakota for a little over a month now. Life is definitely different here. We are living in a 1982 34 foot Suncrest motor home, In the parking lot of the company my husband is working for. We did sell my Sebring convertible and used that money for a deposit on a 2006 38 foot Keystone Montana fifth wheel. We are waiting for our house to close so we can pay cash for it.

Speaking of the house we were very lucky the first people that walked through wanted it. We our just waiting on closing, it should be before or on the 29th.

More about our adventure coming soon. Thanks for stopping by.