Location: Radford, Virginia, US
Wow! A lot has happened in the months
since last April when we last wrote. Here's the end-of-the-year
synopsis, "Readers Digest" style:
We made it safely back to Blacksburg in late March.
We decide to sell "No Sails", take our house off rental market in August, and move back in again, at least for a while. But we need to have somewhere to live until August if we sell the View. So we buy a pickup truck and an 18' travel trailer. Now we can put "No Sails" on the market. Except that we've missed that spring time "sellers market". So we wait. And wait. And wait longer. And keep waiting. Move into our house on 2 August – now we have three homes and two vehicles. So, sad to say, we decide to sell Wanda the Honda, too. She sells quickly and we miss her. Finally "No Sails" sells in mid August. Phew!! Back down to 1 vehicle and 1 camper again.
Then we change our minds and decide to put the Blacksburg house back on the rental market for the income, and start searching for a smaller, less expensive house we can use as a "home base" while continuing to travel. After looking for several months, we eventually hit paydirt and find a little one-bedroom house in nearby Radford that we love.
So, where are we now? Radford for the holidays, doing house jobs, building a Murphy bed for when we have guests, and deciding where we'll go when we can't stand the cold later this winter – Puerto Rico, Spain and Mexico have been mentioned. Then we're thinking about taking the camper out to Montana and New Mexico for a large chunk of next summer. Time'll tell ...
The Murphy bed
Hope you had a wonderful Christmas, and
are, like us, looking forward to the New Year!
