Ever thought about quitting your job, cashing out everything to relax and sail the world? Well that’s exactly what this couple did! Since August 12, 2011 Matt and Jessica Johnson who both had good jobs and earned about a thousand dollars per month. They gave up their jobs and decided to head out for the open sea while living of their boat. Till date they have been to 16 countries including Peru, Bahamas, Jamaica and Cuba. Georgie is the pet cat; he has travelled with them since 2012 and can swim. In an interview with Daily mail they stated that their life was the American dream which was to go to school, get hitched, get a house and get a career. The only part they had stalled on was having two or three kids. The couple went further to say that for a long part of their lives together they had just spent time watching television without necessarily achieving anything productive and they realized that they need to change the status quo.
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“It started in late summer of 2007 while on the shores of Lake Michigan”
“Matt would look at the sailboats on the water and comment on how he’d like to try that someday”
“He asked, ‘We can either get a piece of property or spend the money to get a sailboat, which do you think would be best?’”
“Eventually we decided…that we would rather spend our summers on the water”
“We sold our house in June of 2011…when we realized we wanted to be gone for longer, possibly 4-5 years and go much further”
“In July we both quit our jobs, sold our cars, and were ready to start the cruising life”
The couple adopted their cat, Georgie, in 2012
Georgie “does very well with the sailing and is more steady on her feet than we are”
“I think that sailing the world has been great for our relationship”
“There’s no walking away from an argument when one person gets mad at the other, you have to keep working together until the job is done”
The cat “loves sitting on the deck and watching the fish over the side of the boat when we are at anchor”
“We’d also been hearing stories from so many others that had been putting their dream on hold until retirement and for one reason or another until their dreams were no longer attainable”
The couple “found out [Georgie] can swim when she jumped overboard in Grand Cayman”
“She swam around the back of the boat and climbed up the ladder”
“Our lives were the typical American Dream. Go to school, get married, buy a house, start a career”
“So far we’ve also left out the part of having 2.5 kids”
“For too long we had spent all of our weekends in front of the TV without ever doing anything productive or enjoyable”
“We never wanted that to be us”
