A Little About Us

Mostly, it's me, Deb that puts the site together but our story is About Us, my husband Captain Joe and me.

We have one child , an adult daughter without whom you would not be reading this page. Ever the patient teacher , Michelle has encouraged me to walk then run in an industry where I knew nothing but how to surf and e-mail. Websites can fit into any lifestyle and allow us a great deal of freedom.

Our winters are spent aboard our sailboat which is currently in Mexico.

Life aboard is relaxed and transient with a healthy dose of boat projects thrown in to keep us from falling into a drunken abyss. There is also website work to be done especially when we have internet access.

Sometimes we take road trips inland to explore the Mexican villages. Other times we spend hours swimming, beach walking, snorkeling and plopping then sailing off to the next place with like minded people.

Plopping? Oh that's sort of like bar hopping but with palapas instead.

At the end of the season we complete as many projects as possible on our beloved boat, put her to bed and fly home.

Summers in Canada are a bustle of activity.

When we arrive in Canada we have many family and friends to reconnect with in Alberta before we pack up the truck and head west to British Columbia.

We spend our summers running a small Marina in the Gulf Islands. Our young grandsons live nearby and we spend as much quality time as possible with them and our daughter while we're there.

When the marina job is done for the year we travel back to Alberta to attend family events, and visit with a close circle of family and friends to round things out.

Then we get on a plane to Mexico to live on the boat for the winter and start the cycle over again.

"You can do this Mom" she told me.

That brings us back to the websites.

The reason our daughter encouraged this avenue was to lighten our work load in Canada. Too many times our work schedule interfered with events (this was back when I worked on an ambulance service and Joe played..er...worked, running heavy equipment for the county) and prevented us from spending time with the people that we had come home to see.

We don't mind hard work we just need it to fit our lifestyle better.

Did you know an information website can be tended into a burgeoning business that pays a healthy monthly income? We know this because it's what Michelle did while being a stay at home mom.

Those five little words "You can do this Mom" were the words that got the thought process in action and before I knew it I was casting about for website ideas.

Vacation Lists was a perfect match for a traveling, list junkie like myself. The site is young and will need nurturing over the next years and that can be done from anywhere there's internet access. We will certainly be putting that to the test.