We're On A Boat

Newsletter 2021-07-12

A man only needs two friends in his life: one with a truck, and one with a boat. My boat guy is my former college roommate/gnome thief extraordinaire Rocco (a.k.a., “Legs” in my latest book). Exploiting that friendship to its fullest, I took my whole family last weekend to hang out with Rocco and his ultra powerful speedboat on the largest lake in Wisconsin. If you think my kids cause chaos on land, you should see them rocketing across the water at twice the speed of sound. Okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that fast, but we were able to outrun their cries of joy/terror. Out on the lake, no one can hear you scream.

If you’ve been following my past few newsletters, you might notice this one continues our recent trend of never, ever being home. After a year of being stuck in my house, I vowed that this summer we would get out and do all the things, much to the disappointment of my wife, kids, and all the people we planned to visit. The Wisconsin trip was the third weekend in a row where we wen…