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Life with Bob & Wendy

George Steinbeck wrote “My Travels with Charlie” about packing up and setting out to see America on the road. A friend asks, how do you describe your lifestyle? Another says, “I cannot understand you two!. “We answer that we are aspiring to be homeless!” The fact is that we have both been wanderers since birth

From a young age, both of us have sought to see new things, travel extensively and meet new people to learn more about their stories. Consider it luck or design, we met later in life and as we grew to know each other we discovered that we were more the same than different. We crossed the globe for business and both ended up in a small town in New Mexico called Pecos. We were told by the natives that Pecos means “Peace.” For us, Pecos meant a Defining Moment in our lives separately and together. Some people meet on match.com or at the grocery store. We met at 7,000 feet at a high ropes course above the Pecos River. …and it was a Defining Moment. So much so that we wrote our book “Defining Moments” about the experience.

Meeting for the first time, now in our 40’s, we were on a very fast track to be together. Wendy lived in Boca Raton Florida, a Coca Cola VP and Bob in Northern California as a tech CEO in Silicon Valley. Our meeting was so profound that we disregarded the traditional barriers that would seem powerful being 3,000 miles apart. The truth was we never saw barriers, but only a lighted pathway to being together.

So, within a year, we chucked everything, moved to San Diego and lived on our motor yacht, “The Dream Warrior.” Seemed like an appropriate name for many reasons, mainly though because we felt we had so much time to make up together.

Wendy’s Melanoma was a real defining moment for a multitude of reasons. It gave us both a sense of needing to accelerate more in the realization that life is too short to clutter our lives with stuff, boredom or being stuck.

When we wrote Defining Moments, we thought it was a book for others. Now we realize that it was a book for us. Originally 400+ pages, we stripped out all the negative and only focused on the positive. Now 138 pages, we joke that it is the TV commercial version of our lives.

Moving off of Dream Warrior to dry land was painful…very painful! It seemed like it cut out part of our soul. Moving east to chase our Orion consulting business was also hard, but we both seemed to sense that we were on the path to another defining moment. Working to help Pfizer with various product teams like Zyrtec, Celebrex, Zithromax and Caduet drugs was flanked by our work in the entertainment industry. We lived in our Frank Lloyd Wright modeled home in Annapolis, but we worked on 42nd street in New York, Santa Monica and Amsterdam.

911 was a wild card for us while being a defining moment for the world. To our surprise, our business grew while others in our field complained about lost business. Even though, this was not our defining moment, but a teacher reminding us that we had slowed down and become a slave to our business…our work. Walking from 42nd street 15 blocks to our hotel each evening found conversations about, “What are we supposed to be doing?”

The real defining moment came out of frustration. Wendy’s Melanoma was a shock and a life changing moment. After years of prescription skin care and sunscreens, Wendy’s aftermath was not the Melanoma surgery, it was the products she had to use on her skin and what they were doing to her life. The only solution was to take her off of everything because it was clear to us that the eczema one day that turned into adult acne that turned into psoriasis was not real, but caused by these products. Turning to simple organic products, like Dr Bronner soap, Wendy improved daily. Bronner’s was too harsh, so Bob researched and developed a soap for her to use that was not harsh and contained many natural skin care ingredients. It worked! Wendy’s skin not only returned to normal, it glowed and the frequency of the other basil cancer removals declined. Our friends, Brian in the UK and Teunis in the Netherlands both new that we were unhappy in our consulting business and encourages us to market our products.

Well the rest is history and a place where we could reset our lives to be back on the Dream Warrior in a new way. Starting Keys was hard work and after four years, we were on our path thanks to many friends that helped and encouraged us. Our now dear friend Ullrich bought our factory and incorporated into his. This freed us to get on the road to sell our products, visit our customers, but more importantly live our life again at sea level. This time, not on a boat, but at See Level on the highways of America.

We do not ask anyone to understand us because often we do not. Technology now gives us the ability to see things, do things and be on the road for our business. Seven days a week, we work on Keys business and we experience our surroundings, the people and events that make up our lives.

SeeLevel is our chronicle of our journeys and experiences. Interesting new technologies project our location on Google Earth for our friends to follow. Our calendar attempts to show where we are planning to be and this journal links to Keys as well as other sites that describe us and our nomadic behavior.

Lastly, it is hard for some to understand. We now never look back, but only through the front windshield of our custom home on wheels. Affectionately nicknamed the Grizzly, Dream Warrior ll offers us freedom, comfort and adventure to move about the country.

Enjoy traveling with us at See Level!