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It really hasn't sunk in yet. Even though my wife, Harriet, and I are anchored on our new bluewater cruising boat, Hands Across the Sea, a Dolphin 460 catamaran, on the Rio Paragauçu, in northeastern Brazil, it hasn't completely registered that we've made it—that we've successfully completed the leap from land life to the cruising life.

Within the space of a single year, we'd sold our previous boat, a 32-foot coastal cruiser, wrapped up our careers, sold our house, stored our possessions, sold our cars, found a home for our cat, worked with our Brazilian boatbuilder to customize our new boat, and bought a boatload of equipment, from solar panels to a watermaker. It feels like a miracle how quickly the trappings of suburbia—home insurance, property taxes, traffic, mowing the lawn, blizzards, consumerism, the roar of media, the neighbors' barking dogs at midnight—have fallen away astern. We're just as astonished by what's ahead—a life with an open horizon, promising equal measures of freedom and challenge. No, I really haven't absorbed all of this yet.

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