Ch Ch Ch Changes

Welcome all to the refreshed and relocated blog.

We felt it needed a bit of a change around for two main reasons (and several minor ones)

Firstly the original blog (link) was really meant to be a gap year diary and now we're well on our way to year eight calling it a gap year or a career break seems a bit daft... and we ain't going back! 

Secondly, the old blog title, Lois Jane - loving the dream isn't going to be relevant soon.

Minor change wise, Deb has written loads of blog entries for our pen selling site The Pen Maker's Boat Blog. They can be quite repetitive but its nice to include with the pen's build blog a bit of what we have been up to cruising wise. It really is probably a lot easier to read (or not to) if in the pen blogs we keep to just about the pens but have a link to our travels blog, probably with a 'lead in' paragraph.

Now Blogger doesn't make it easy (not to me anyway) to change the name of a blog so we're having to re title our travels blog to make it more recognisable to pen buyers, are you still following me? So the old blog (Lois Jane - living the dream) will be stopping soon and changing over to this new one, The Pen Maker's Journey. I'll carry on cross posting for a bit so anyone can follow over or not if they want to clear their feed up a bit. It would be appreciated if the boater blogging stalwarts could list us in their feeds though ;)

Over the last couple of years we've looked at lots of life changing options from houses on the cheaper outskirts of Chester to canal side woodland in rural Warwickshire and spending some time boating around central Europe. Nothing seemed quite right or right for us as the next five to ten year plan. 

We've had a good old look at what we like at the moment and what we don't; what we're prepared to do and what we're not and we seem to have revisited a solution that we considered in about 2010 before we bought LJ. 

More to follow as the thlot pickens.