I hope Jimmy Buffett notices this story. He might make them whole and feature them on this summer’s tour. It seems a natural.
A Colorado couple said they sold everything they owned to buy a sailboat and set out for the open seas together.
You're right. I believe Buffett wrote about a cowboy from Colorado who went to sea in one of his novel's.
Wait no, I just googled it and the book is "A Salty Piece of Land", but the State is Wyoming.
He leaves Lost Boys to take a few days off after this experience, and drunkenly falls asleep on the beach, where he is robbed in his sleep. When he wakes, a 140-foot schooner, the Lucretia, is anchored nearby. When the captain, feisty 101-year-old Cleopatra Highbourne, comes ashore, they strike up a friendship immediately and Tully is offered a job as part of the crew. Initially, he turns down this offer, but after run-ins with two bounty hunters from Wyoming, where he has outstanding warrants, he finds himself on her ship just the same. It is at that point that she takes him to Cayo Loco, the salty piece of land referred to in the book's title, which is a small mythical island that is home to an old-fashioned lighthouse. Cleopatra puts Tully to work fixing up the ruin, as she intends the island to be her final resting place.Somebody call Jimmy Buffett.