With the interwoven challenges of heat and roommates, our daily life continued on. For several weeks during the summer our Internet kept coming and going. When we rely so much on its easy accessibility (research, online bill-paying, bank reconciliations, communicating with others), being without it is very frustrating. After getting totally fed up with frequent …
Having roommates is definitely a new experience for Chelsea and me. Alex grew up in our household, so having him as a quasi-roommate was pretty straightforward. We’ve known him his whole life, and we had worked out the issues of living together. Besides, he’s close family. It’s been a new look at life to awaken …
“I’ll be back again next week, so adios till then.” I should know better than to end a travel journal entry that way. Given the unpredictability of our lives, a week could well turn into a month, or a month into three months. That’s what happened this summer. A few days turned into a week, …
Summer and blooming Summer arrived early this year – May was noticeably warmer than usual, though it didn’t hit horribly unpleasant levels of heat. Somehow though, even with a late/non-existent spring, we’re having a record year for blooming. Remember the pollen carpet we had for weeks? Thankfully that’s been gone for awhile, but everything else …
Getting exercise Life’s been very quiet at the Inlet this last week. The winds finally died, and we’ve had increasingly higher tides, so fishing is non-existent. We’re expecting full-moon high tides on Thursday, which means the tides will likely swamp the seawall. That’s always a sight to see – water in the parking lot, fish …
Bike rides to the Inlet. Weight workouts. Daily tasks. Body for Life. Getting projects done. The last week and a half we’ve kept chugging along steadily. The Body for Life project is taking over our lives, in a good way. Each day starts at six a.m. or shortly thereafter. Four days a week we head …
Mother’s Day 2008 found us at Café du Monde in New Orleans eating beignets and sipping café au lait. We’d left the Lakeview District the previous afternoon with our Couchsurfing host Darryl Goodwin (and his dog Maria), bicycling eighteen miles through New Orleans, taking a ferry across the Mississippi, and spending the night in the …
How it happened is not a big surprise, but Chelsea and I have both gained significant body fat over the last two years; I much more so than Chelsea. Stress contributed greatly – it’s not been an easy several years with the economy having wiped out our income sources – but maybe the fried fish, …
The siren call of our trip is never far from our awareness – it underlies everything we do. Though we find ourselves currently in the midst of other projects, each one of them gets us farther and farther along the way to leaving for seven or more years, knowing that everything is shipshape on the …
One of the very best things about being home is seeing our family; on the road we missed them so much at times it was a palpable ache. Paul and Denise and Chandler My oldest son Paul lives with his wife Denise and son Chandler in Fort Lauderdale. Paul and Denise are extremely busy and …
