It took two full weeks before we were in circulation again. Weather Shocks Having spent months in gorgeous, stable eighty-degree weather in South Florida, we suddenly had rapidly fluctuating weather, frequently going from warm spring-like days to bitter-cold and windy days overnight, then back again. It wreaked havoc with us, given how tired we were. …
By the time we got back to Gueydan that Mardi Gras night, we needed to be alone. We’d been sleeping in living rooms and spare bedrooms for five days, with incredibly on-the-go days and very little sleep. So as tempting as it was to take the comfy bed in the house at Kenneth and Heuetta’s, …
Sunday There was no rest for the tired, even on Sunday. We were up at seven, on less than six hours sleep, breakfasting and chatting and getting ready for three back-to-back New Orleans Mardi Gras parades. The day was cold with biting winds gusting down the streets. Chelsea and I weren’t used to the bitter …
Our driving adventures Settling ourselves into the comfy car with a big sigh of relief, we felt more stunned than anything. We’d had the week from hell, we were so tired it didn’t bear thinking about, and now we were tucked in a car for at least twelve hours with a perfect stranger. Getting to …
With the economy sputtering near disaster and feeling the recession snapping at our heels, Chelsea and I returned home to Delray Beach in August of 2009 to close out our house and decide what to do with it. We also decided to downsize our personal goods significantly. Little did we know back then that our …
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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