Things I’ve Learned While Sailing and Driving Around the World In 2003, at the age of twenty-nine, my wife and I went from living and working in downtown Chicago, to pre-retirement and sailing around the world. It was a dramatic shift for two mid-westerners who had never been on a boat before, and also were far too young to be retired in the traditional sense. Our plan had been to sail around the world, sell … read more Some Things I’ve Learned