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We've all had that conversation—with ourselves or our significant other—the one about what to do with our life. For some it remains just that—a conversation. But for Pat and Ali the simple question— posed over too many pitchers of beer at their favorite downtown Chicago pizza place—had an answer that demanded action.

“What do you think about sailing around the world for four years?” Pat asked Ali.

“Sure, why not?” came the non-chalant, slightly inebriated response. And thus concluded what would become a life changing moment for the two.

Why not? Well, for starters, they had never stepped foot on a sailboat before. For another, they were on the fast track to beating out all of the Joneses. They were young, and by any measure successful, but they were bored and getting a little soft around the middle. Their comfortable existence wasn't doing it for them, and the idea of moving to the suburbs from the city to become more comfortable made them queasy.

Within months they'd bought a 35' catamaran (after just eight hours of searching), and had set out across the Gulf Stream for the Bahamas. For months they fine tuned their decidedly amateur sailing routine, and then...they were off.

For the next four years they sailed around the world, had adventures, met new people, faced down dangers, discovered new and amazing things like winches have two speeds and a sailboat's windex is not it's blue glass cleaner.

They also learned that people are good the world over—that every stranger was not out to get them, that even the scariest looking among them—the pirates of our minds eye—are deep down no different from you and I. In fact, they've had that conversation too—What am I going to do with my life?