Some recent (past few years) history: 

We're now land-lubbers with no live-aboard boats.  We only have two little boats, a flats fishing boat in Florida and a Lund fishing boat in Wisconsin.  That's it! 

We sold our boat (the 55 foot Hampton we were living/cruising on) and the new owners took possession in January 2007.  They live in New York, are currently doing the Great American Loop on the boat just like we did.  They have promised to call us if/when they're ready to sell.  When we're ready to get back into cruising & living on the boat again, that would be the perfect boat for it.  :-)

Most of the year we live at our home in Punta Gorda, FL.  In the summer and early fall, we live at our Wisconsin summer place.

EARLIER NOTES:

We were cruising in the Bahamas for the winter of 2006.  There are about 700 Bahamian islands!  We got to several of them and they were beautiful and so interesting!

It was such a treat when our kids flew down to Key West and spent Christmas 2005 with us on the boat.  After January 1st, 2006, we meandered up the Keys and then cruised east out into the Bahamas. 

Success!  We completed the "Great American Loop" on December 13th, 2005 when we reached our home in Punta Gorda Isles!  We cruised about 7000 miles on this loop.  The journey began on April Fools Day 2005 when we left the dock at our Florida home.  We cruised up the east coast to N.Y. City, up the Hudson river and Erie Canal into the Great Lakes and headed west to our Wisconsin home on Lake Superior.  We then went down through Chicago and the inland river system (Illinois, Mississippi, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Tombigbee rivers) into Mobile, Alabama.  Our boat travels continued down the west coast of Florida into Charlotte Harbor and finally into our canal where our Florida home is, in Punta Gorda Isles.