This morning I was walking back from MD's Big Fresh, one of the better supermarkets in Samoa and I met one of the Yachties, a woman named Beverly from Vancouver.

Anyway, she was walking along the seawall whistling to get her husband's attention out on the sailboat so that he would bring the dinghy and pick her up.

I want to start meeting these folks because I'm planning on leaving Samoa by boat when I finish my Peace Corps assignment, so I chatted her up.

Their deal is this:

They are not retired. She’s a hairdresser and he’s a marine engineer. They go around from place to place and offer their services. They have two daughters, 7 and 9, whom they home school. I thought the girls would think travel was great, but they are sick of the boat and want to live in a house.

They left Vancouver last year. They spent some time in Hawaii. Spent the winter at Fanning Island in Kiribati. Now they are in Samoa.

They have little in the way of expense and Beverly expects to continue to travel this way indefinitely. They plan to spend the winter in New Zealand.

How great is that?