Chelsea left in early February for what was intended to be one month in California, staying at her grandparents’ home in Lompoc, a small town just north of Santa Barbara. Both her grandparents had been ailing for some time, both in nursing homes up in the San Francisco Bay area. Chelsea’s task was to clean …
No more roommates Back on the home front, our roommate of nearly a year and half moved out the last day of April. Tyler spends summers working in Boston anyway, and with the closing date on our house being so uncertain, he opted for saving rent money and putting his things in storage for a …
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Thanksgiving through Easter Holidays were notably quiet this year. We spent Thanksgiving at home with Tyler, with whom we joined forces to cook a great meal and no fewer than two pumpkin pies and three cheesecakes. Guess we had a collective sweet tooth that day. Christmas was very quiet, too. Alex and Amanda invited us …
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Movies One of our favorite projects has been the copying of our somewhat extensive collection of DVDs to our much-appreciated portable hard drive. I researched the software and found a decent one, got it loaded onto Chelsea’s computer, and she’s been happily copying several movies a day for months. We ran into a couple of …
Floppy disks Remember floppy disks? Hey, I thought they were awesome when they came out; I still remember the original floppy disks that were twice the size and were really and truly floppy. But life and technology move on, and here I was, stuck with over a hundred of those pesky floppy drives and no …
Life continues apace with our non-stop selling of furniture and household goods and with our multiple projects of digitizing everything possible in our lives. Last November I wrote about how our house was beginning to echo, but that was small peanuts compared to now. The house is now so empty that we can’t speak in …
Riding in the rain Chelsea and I have been very lucky with almost never getting caught in the rain. Well, it’s been both luck and careful planning. We have, however, wanted to be better prepared for riding in the rain. I left before dark again one Saturday while Chelsea was in California, and hadn’t paid …
Daily surprises Each day something different happens on our rides, keeping life interesting. There’s a house on our route on A1A, off to the left at the north end of Delray Beach, with a tall two-story window in the front. It’s normally covered in gauzy drapes and the lights are out when we come by …
Chasing sunrise again Perhaps what we love the most about riding here is the spectacular scenery. Sometimes we want to pinch ourselves to see if we are dreaming – we feel so lucky to live here! (And often we can’t believe we are giving it up to live on the road for eight years…) Before …
Our riding territory We wind through several neighborhoods on our rides each morning – some with wide ethnic diversity, some all white, some all black with a few Hispanics, then the multi-million dollar neighborhoods on A1A. Each one is unique. Our two favorites are the sections on A1A for the views and scenery, and the …
