You may be wondering why I, who am ordinarily organized to the nth degree, had so much trouble finding things in our bags during our packing and leaving Delray phase. It’s very unlike me. Bear with me while I backtrack a bit to fill you in. When we first decided on our many-years-long cycling trip, …
Thursday Feb 16, closing day Thursday slipped from hectic into frantic early in the day. From seven in the morning until we collapsed at Jose and Carmen’s at ten-thirty in the evening, we worked without a break, under the gun the entire time. It was tough just remembering to breathe. We didn’t remember to eat. …
If we thought we were tired then, we had reached a whole new mind-numbing level of tiredness by the time we left Delray. A few days before closing I called Denise one last time to see if we really were going to close. “Nothing’s left, right Denise? Nothing’s left? We are really and truly closing? …
Our two-and-half-year downsizing saga was a tough go, requiring a lot of stamina, determination, focus and discipline on our part. To make it work we needed to stay happy, or least appreciative of the way things were going. Laughter was always a good thing. The timing of Alex’s recent decision to begin his stand-up comedy …
So much was happening in our lives during those weeks that our idea of long range planning was “what’s for dinner tonight?” It was exhausting just reading and tracking our to-do lists. We gave up bike rides in order to get things done. We were living on five to six hours or less of sleep …
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Starting in December the closing date for our short sale became a rapidly moving target. First came the big news that everything was approved and we’d be closing right after Christmas. That was discouraging, as we still needed time to finish, and we hated to be on the streets, so to speak, right during the …
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Our bird watching this year started out slowly, but we more than made up for the late start with the richness of our sightings. Not only do we have the daily viewing exposure of our bike rides, but our living room has a triple sliding glass door which opens out onto a large screened-in porch, …
As if the universe was sending us a pat on the back for learning the lesson from Attila the Hun, our sale of the sideboard, our very last piece, was the exact opposite experience. Though our nerves were still shaky, we had the resolve of steel to make sure this sale went smoothly. The good …
Finally, after many months of effort, we were down to our last two pieces of antique furniture, a wardrobe and a sideboard from our time in the Czech Republic. As luck would have it, they were also the two biggest. The prices we’d set were heartbreakingly low for us, but South Florida is not the …
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You may wonder what getting wisdom teeth extracted has to do with our extended bike trip, but if those wisdom teeth are flaring up into pain frequently, and we’re in difficult physical situations, suddenly getting them removed sounds like the deal of a lifetime. Over the length of our bike trip Chelsea had been consistently …
