Land Lubber

7 years living on my 30 foot sailboat and I finally reached my tolerance of the marina lifestyle. I love living on a sailboat, I love being on the water, I love the proximity to my recreational activities and trying to live a life with minimal impact on my surroundings. It was everything else that was slowly getting on my nerves. It was 7 years of accepting the bad with enjoying the good, but the bad variables outweighed the rest and we had our sights on moving onto land.

Rent in LA can be about $3000-$5000 a month, so it was a waiting game to save just enough to own a house on land, no way I was going to go from sweet inexpensive boat life to lining the pockets of a landlord. Fortunately that time came and some houses were for sale. Long story short: we moved into a house in the Southbay, on the boarder of San Pedro and Palos Verdes. This location shortened the amount of time for Mia’s commute, gave me the opportunity to finally work from home, and welcomes us to the next phase of our lives - pretty exciting!

The house is a 4-bed, 3-bath, remodeled (flipped, actually), with some really cool potential. It’s going to involve many weekend projects and for the first month it’s provided more than enough headaches, but it's all worth it as an investment. Anyways, the sailboat is up for sale now and I’m confident sailing will still be something I do, whether that be on the dinghy or if a trailerable day-sailer is in my future.

The process of buying a house sucks, I’ll say that much. But we’ve been hard at work and frugal about how to furnish it, build things, customize rooms, and design the landscape a little. After signing the papers is when the fun starts. Here are some photos from just 1 month living on land.