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Whats it like to live on a boat?

Now that Im officially off the boat, here is my compiled list of boat living:

1) You have to coordinate your pooping schedule. Gotta poop when you wake up? Well, you gotta wait till you either dingy into town or get to work. Butt cheek clenching is a daily normalcy.
2) You feel like you're on the boat even when you're not. Sitting down is hard sometimes cause your still waving back and forth in your seat.
3) Thinking of wearing a skirt? Probably not the best idea when you're going to be getting in and out of a dingy. You're going to flash someone…
4) Water is a luxury. Because you've got to put the water on the boat somehow, using water for things like washing your face and showering just doesn't happen. Washing hands is rare cause you've gotta turn on the water on in the back of the boat and in the middle of the night, you're just not going to do that…
5) Cooking? Nope, too much work, try again.
6) No fridge which means, you cant take leftovers home, you cant buy anything that needs to stay cold and your drinking water is always warm.
7) When two people live on a boat and there is only one dingy, its hard work to coordinate schedules. Lots of times you're stuck waiting around for the other person so you can dingy back together, or getting up and moving earlier and figuring out something do do for a couple hours… Its not too bad but some nights when you're exhausted and don’t feel like talking to people, its rough waiting around.
8) Coordinating your whole day in the morning; what to bring, what you're doing. Forget something? Its really annoying to have to get back on the dingy, go to the boat, get it and head back. Its not like you can just walk home and grab it. Usually you just say: forget it…
9) Bumping your knee on the side of the boat when you're sleeping. The sleeping quarters are in the front of the boat and in a “V”. Your  head has a lot of space but your feet don't have that much, so in the middle of the night when you roll over and expect more space, you end up with a lot of bruises around your knees.
10) No place to put things. Yup, after almost 4 weeks, Im still living out of my suitcases. And so is Ty…
11) Every day we have to pump up the dingy. It has a hole in it… At least its a workout!
12) Did I mention the poop situation??
13) When its really wavy, its hard to want to stay on the boat and get stuff done because you feel like a drunkard not being able to walk straight and bumping into everything!


But, the best part of living on a boat is this: 

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