JC McDowell and the Family Unit

We’re looking at the calendar trying to figure out where in the world are we going to be for the next 6 months.  In the delicate balance of maximizing our time on the boat and keeping enough cash in the bank we have come to a few conclusions:

We can’t let our cash reserves get TOO [read more...]

A comment from a reader made me think back to a little over a year ago when we first cast off the bowline from a more traditional lifestyle to start living on a boat with a simpler philosophy towards family, money, consumerism, and wealth.

At the end of 2008, we just moved on our CSY [read more...]

We made it- finally!

Despite the endlees list of things to do and other mindless paperwork that is getting backed up, we headed south to San Carlos with an overstuffed Suburban not knowing quite what to expect.  We bought the boat in late June and to that point had not even spent one night aboard!

In [read more...]

The one eyed man is King.

(This post was a draft from before we left Georgia in December 2009)

I’ve been sick with the cold for about a week. It’s been raining here and alternates between cold fronts to downright balmy. While simultaneously running a low grade fever, I have to turn off the heat [read more...]

Recently life has been a lot of hard work, but productive and fruitful work.  We have spent long hours and countless days working but not without reward and indicators along the way the we are indeed moving forward.

It’s summertime and the living is easy
Fish are jumping and the cotton is high
Your daddy’s rich and your [read more...]

I wrapped up the Tucson Gem show yesterday and I am ready for a break after a long month of 12 hour days working the Quartzsite RV show and then straight into the Gem show.

Both were great shows for us and have provided us a great start for this year.

Great News!  We now have a [read more...]

Well, we just had the BEST day ever in donut land at the Tucson Gem Show.  Even more striking, we sold more donuts in 4 hours than I’ve ever sold in an entire day!  We sold unknown hundreds of dozens of donuts, 52 hand pressed frozen lemonades, a dozen frosted cinnamon nuts, and several cases [read more...]

Today is day five of the Tucson Gem Show at our location.  There are about 20 different location throughout the city, each with it’s own unique twist and offering.  The location I’m at is wholesale only full of professional buyers intermingled with business owner’s wives looking for good deals.

This show opens daily at 10am and [read more...]

Yesterday we returned from Quarzsite, Arizona after finishing working the ‘Big Tent’ RV Show for 9 days straight selling mainly coffee and donuts.  Quartzsite, Arizona is really just a blip in the road 8 months out of the year with a population of roughly 3,000 people.  But come November the population starts to swell from [read more...]

When you take a leap of faith and step out into the unknown you can go a long stretch without any validation or signs that you’re on the right path.  With patience and persistence the winds of change slowly put the wind at your back and the world aligns at least for a little while.

While [read more...]