Trading Ordinary...For Extraordinary

DREAM A LITTLE DREAM…

 Stop and think for a minute.

What would you want to be doing right now – this very instant – if you could be doing anything you wanted?

Would you be sailing the tropical islands of the South Pacific?  Would you be exploring the endless coves and beaches of the Pacific Northwest?  Would you be preparing your boat for a circumnavigation?

Would you be doing something other than what you’re doing right now?

Let me paint a picture for you.  Imagine you are sailing your boat into a port you’ve been dreaming about for a long time.  In all your planning, you have anticipated and envisioned your arrival in this port of call over and over again. The sky is bright blue and clear, the air is warm, the landscape is stunning.  You and your crew feel a rush of pride, consumed for the moment by a sense of accomplishment for what you’ve managed to achieve.  You’re here!  You did it!  All the planning, hard work, and sacrifice have paid off.  You feel like you’re right where you’re meant to be… the feeling is amazing.

Now let me paint that same picture for you in more vivid detail.  Imagine you’re sailing down the coast of Baja California, on a downhill run from Mag Bay to Cabo San Lucas.  The overnight leg of your trip is heavenly, so flat and calm that you set up your laptop computer in the cockpit to watch movies.  There seem to be millions and millions of stars in the midnight sky above you - so many, in fact, that looking at them for too long tends to make your eyes blur.  The next day dawns bright and warm, and by mid-day you’re so hot that you douse yourself with buckets of saltwater to cool off.  You’re thinking, “So this is winter in Mexico?”

By the time you arrive in Cabo San Lucas, you have to pinch yourself to make sure what you’re experiencing isn’t a dream.  You’re just off Lover’s Beach, and to your surprise, you’ve been greeted by a gray whale.  He’s blowing and surfacing over and over, as if to welcome you, and it seems he has decided to escort you into the bay.  Once you round Cabo’s famous arches, gray and rugged, your senses are instantly overloaded by the sights in front of you:  exquisite beachfront hotels, gigantic cruise ships, parasailors, sport fishing boats and sailboats as far as the eye can see.  After three weeks of the barren and sparsely populated Baja coastline,  this is a lot of stimulation for your brain to process.  Admittedly, it may be even a bit more “civilization” than you generally prefer, but hey, you could be at work right now.