You know...I am tired of reading books about people who have chucked it all in favor of a life of adventure. "I threw it all away to Eat, Pray and Love!" Hello! If you get a big, fat payment on a book deal you can pretty well go wherever you damn well please.
Finally...I procured the book by Mary South called "The Cure for Everything is Salt Water" (see previous post in this category). She sells her home to finance the purchase of a trawler and gets her captain's license to travel the eastern seaboard alone at age 40. So....a couple of chapters into the book it becomes clear that she TOO is in the publishing business and is "disenchanted" with her bourgeois life and the trappings of such. Actually it turns out that she cashes in a "bit"of her 401k to buy the boat...the trials and tribulations of boat financing follow, though she has 50% down payment. Somewhere in this chapter there is a silly anecdote about how she wrecked her car from the stress of trying to get a yacht loan. And, gosh it is hard to find a bumper for the convertible to fix it....it has to come all the way from Sweden, because the car is a SAAB. I put the book down there and have not picked it back up.
What do I want? Remember, I keep a notebook rife with stories I cull from magazines about folks who "ran off" from everyday as you and I know it. I want to hear about a real estate agent or a state worker who just chucks it all and buys a trawler (on credit, with a minimum down payment....or better yet! Gets the seller to carry the paper!) and heads for Fiji to open a scooter stand on the beach and only keeps his/her nice watch as a token of a life left behind. I suppose I will have to write that story.
But I have learned something.....I am in the wrong business!
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