Author Archives: The Roaming Retirees

I wake up every single day with gratitude that I get to live where people vacation. I’ve spent my life dreaming of this and now it has become a reality and I feel like I should pinch myself that I’m really here living out my dream. Is it perfect? Of course not, but for meContinue reading “Will This Ever Get Old?”

Well 2021 has been quite the year. There are so many people who have had such hard times the last two years wether it be job loss, personal loss, financial struggles, illness or whatever has affected them. I also know several people who made big changes like ourselves leaving the comforts of home and familyContinue reading “Goodbye 2021”

Well this is it, our first Christmas as Floridians. Away from family and friends and all that is familiar. As we have every Christmas before this one always been with family, we have never been alone at Christmas. Our plan was to go to SeaWorld this year, they have a lot of Christmas festivities plannedContinue reading “Merry Christmas”

Well we have finished up our visit here and are heading home tomorrow. It has been a very full sixteen days and celebrating Christmas today was the icing on the cake. What a blessing our family is and we so enjoyed spending time with all of our grandchildren, our children, our parents and so manyContinue reading “See You Soon…”

Well we’ve been here over a week and it has been non stop since we got here. After our flying day hitting the ground running with parade day, we began the week by hanging Christmas lights on our parents house, putting up their Christmas tree and decorating their inside making sure they get to enjoyContinue reading “Gratitude”

Flying back to Washington was a full day in itself, up at three o’clock Eastern Standard Time, flying six hours plus an hour drive back to our old home town and getting ready to go watch two of our grandchildren march in the Christmas parade, one plays a flute and the other is a drummer.Continue reading “Rainy Day Parade”

It is the holidays and what would the holidays be without a night of lights? So this year being our first in Florida we decided to take a day trip and go up to Saint Augustine. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, Saint Augustine is the oldest continuously European inhabited city in the United States.Continue reading “Nights of Lights”

It is Thanksgiving eve and we are starting our preparations for the holidays. It’s difficult after making such a big move to get enthused but Christmas is one of the two most important holidays to me and I want to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Yes there is the worldly side of gifts forContinue reading “Deck Those Halls”

We have survived the first month of unpacking, repairmen, installers, meeting neighbors, deliveries, hanging pictures, and have already had two separate sets of friends stay one week apart. We are as settled as we could expect to be in our first thirty days and we have enjoyed spending time with our friends, and we haveContinue reading “One Month In”

Have you ever asked yourself the question after finally doing something you’ve thought about for a very long time why didn’t I do this sooner? Or Why did we wait so long? After being here for almost four weeks we were talking a couple of days ago about just that, why did we wait soContinue reading “Why Did We Wait So Long???”