A Pirate's Wife Life by Michelle - Live Aboard Luxuries

Never crush a man's ego.  That means it seems completely cruel to him to call his boat a "camper on the water".  Lesson learned!

Handsome Beast Pirate

When Sixteen Tons was first purchased, she needed a lot of work.  She has two heads (bathrooms) but let me tell ya, they were rough.  The toilets were "pump away"!  Pump away, as in you stand above the toilet and pump this little handle until the bowl is empty.  I don't care what kind of handsome beast pirate I am married to, I told him, "I am not your pump away girl."

Pump.  Pump.  Pump until the bowl is empty.  

So, he promptly bought and installed an electric toilet - whew.  This one is more like an airplane toilet.  Just push the button and the bowl is quickly emptied!

Push the button and like a miracle....

I have read several intriguing blogs of families who enjoy the live aboard life.  They go to the most fascinating places and have these incredible experiences with indigenous people.   They step off their decks and into civilizations of a thousand years past.  Maybe I could learn the valuable lesson that there are some luxuries worth trading for experiences of a lifetime.

Reminds me of a quote from Tolkien's, "The Lord of the Rings," when Bilbo says to Frodo, "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.  You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no telling where you might be swept off to."

Exactly.

He is an adventurer - can't keep him in the Shire!

  

"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. In or out of 'em, it doesn't matter. Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all, you're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you'd much better not." - Spoken by Ratty to Mole in "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame