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Anyone in the travel community follows or at the least has heard of Pat and Ali from bumfuzzle. For the last ten years they have sailed around the world on a 35 foot catamaran, raced around the world in a classic Porsche, drove from Alaska to Argentina in a VW bus, lived on a monohull in Mexico where they had their two children and now are traveling the states in an old Travco motor home. They've been there and done it all and are the epitome of "living-the-dream" that we all, deep down, wish we could live.
This past week while my parents where in town to help work on the boat, we had them set up in our trailer at the Oak Harbor RV park down the road from the marina. While checking facebook one morning, I noticed an update from the bumfuzzles, saying they were on a Whidbey Island. Knowing that every state park was booked up until Labor Day, there was a very good chance I knew where they were staying. I emailed my Dad and asked him to walk around the park and see if he could see their big, blue bus. He emailed back in a few minutes saying he had found them and they were coming to dinner that night.
We were thrilled to get to meet the family we have been following for years, we had a great dinner, courtesy of my Mom and the kids played.
We have enjoyed living vicariously through their adventures and thank them, and other traveling families out there, for showing us we can live our dreams, for ourselves, for our kids, that life is short and we need to live it.
They head out of our neck of the woods tomorrow and we look forward to following their stories as they go.
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