Sausalito Houseboat — IFSF PUBLISHING

Yes I’m living on a houseboat for a little while. And thanks for asking, what’s it like to live on a houseboat in Sausalito?

The houseboat is smaller than I first remembered, having seen it only once before, remembering it then as being at least a little larger than my memory.

Now after living on it for almost two weeks, I’m delighted that it’s smaller than I first remembered--there’s less I have to do.

I’m here for a reason, though what that reason is only gradually becoming both clear and opaque to me the longer I stay.

It’s a good place to stay while both thinking and feeling. The privacy is immense, the anonymity is almost sacred.

Living on the houseboat I’m able to think of two things at once, without multi-tasking.

I take ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures of the tides. When the tides come in the canal is filled, when the tides go out the canal is empty. Each tide takes care of its business, like clockwork,twice a day.

Of the tides I ask, where are they going?

Perhaps I’ll become the lucky writer who will never fall into same canal twice.

I don’t have a car while living on the houseboat. I walk into town, to the public library, a restaurant, the supermarket etc. Only the library is free, anywhere else I go I have to bring my dough.

I forgot to add that walking in Sausalito is still free.