{"id":828,"date":"2020-02-23T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanderinglines.com\/?p=828"},"modified":"2020-02-23T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T23:37:40","slug":"tweeking-my-interest-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meanderinglines.com\/?p=828","title":{"rendered":"Tweeking my Interest-part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meanderinglines.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/winter-house-clouds-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-830\"\/><figcaption>View from our house with clouds over Bozeman &amp; the Gallatin Valley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The snow storm has extinguished the familiar lights of Bozeman and the Gallatin valley that are spread out beneath our house.\u00a0 The kitchen is warm and bright, a beef stew simmering on the stove fills the house with a comforting aroma and our guest are on their way.\u00a0 Fall weather is a fact of life, not an excuse.\u00a0 The wind is noisy as it buffets the windows and doors, the house is warm inside.\u00a0 I make the final preparations for dinner while Lori continues to straighten thing up around the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">HJ and Tammy settle in with a glass of wine before dinner as we begin to describe the trip we had just completed.&nbsp; They are good friends, I can tell them half baked ideas and I will get an honest answer.&nbsp; We look at photos and visit about the pleasures and trials of the trip.&nbsp; We casually entertain the idea of going to Europe and renting a boat for a trip, knowing that purchasing one was impractical.&nbsp; They are game for the conversation and have ideas of their own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Over the next few weeks we continue to visit with friends about our adventure, most were surprised and somewhat intrigued by our experiences.&nbsp; This along with trying to adjust to our real life again kept me considering options that would enable the continuation of the experiences that we had.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">One morning while enjoying my morning ritual, surfing the news while drinking my first cups of coffee, I did a search for boats for sale in France.&nbsp; One of the first websites I came across was the site that I had used to research rental boat options, Holidays H2O.&nbsp; The company has a couple of harbors in France from which they broker boats and display them on their website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">As I was wasting time pursuing through their site I found some good looking boats that weren\u2019t as expensive as I had expected them to be.\u00a0 I looked at the details of the boats and kept thinking that something must be wrong with these, since I have always assumed that boats were expensive. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Over the next few weeks I continued to day dream in the mornings with an expanded search though different boat brokers, and I continued to find reasonably priced boats.\u00a0 They weren\u2019t new by any means, most of those I found that were affordable were of the 1970s to 1990s vintage, but they looked good.\u00a0 Even so, I thought what good is it to have a boat in Europe while I have to work in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-medium-font-size\">This is the first installment of the second chapter in the ongoing series that details our introduction to river cruising on the European waterways and to our purchase and outfitting of our own boat to for travel and living in Europe. 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