Author Archives: The Roaming Retirees

Well here we are on day five in Tennessee. We have traveled from Washington to Oregon, to Idaho to Utah to Wyoming back to Utah to Colorado to Kansas to Missouri to Illinois to Kentucky and now to Tennessee my former home state. Whew, this exhausts me to actually see how far we have traveled.Continue reading “Almost Home….”

I think when you say Kansas for many of us our minds wander to thoughts of Dorothy and Toto in the Wizard of Oz. Somewhere over the rainbow, there’s no place like home, lions and tigers and bears, oh my!! But in reality as we make the trek across Kansas what I see is theContinue reading “Toto, We’re Not In Kansas Anymore”

So we started off day three with the bad news that I80 would remain closed for another nine plus hours, so after discussing our only two options of either stay an extra day or turn around and back track to Utah and go south through Provo then head East through Denver, we opted to rerouteContinue reading “Patience Is A Virtue”

So day two we started off in Boise Idaho and headed East SE to Utah and then onto Wyoming. Our original plan was to stay in Rock Springs but after we stopped to fuel up in Evanston we began to head east on US80 and a big flashing sign announcing a road closure was aheadContinue reading “Stuck in Wyoming”

Ten hours later and day one of driving is behind us, that was a long day! Driving through this part of the country makes me think about how the pioneers did it. My gosh can you imagine driving across America in a wagon? I mean, this is tough in a truck as it is, butContinue reading “Wagons Ho….”

The day has come that we leave our cute little apartment behind us. We are loading up the last of our things and will soon be on our way to our new home in Florida. It seems this last month the time has flown by. We’ve had many friends taking us to dinner, cooking usContinue reading “Moving Out!!”

In the last two weeks we have traveled from Washington to Florida, spent eleven busy days meeting with the builder, going to design center for last minute changes, meeting with landscapers, pest control, opening new bank accounts, setting up utilities, snuck in a little beach time, dinner with friends, shopping for furniture and closing onContinue reading “Are We There Yet??”

After much decision making, planning, anticipating and dreaming we are finally taking that next big step into making our move. We spent the last nine months building our retirement home and we have finally closed and got our keys. We aren’t new to moving that’s for sure, we’ve moved from Washington to Tennessee and backContinue reading “We Did it!!!”

We’ve only just begun Little did we know when we sold our home ten months ago that we would be in interim housing this long. our goal was to sell the house, the housing market was hot, and put everything in storage for three or four months and then make our move. Well nothing everContinue reading “On The Move…”

I never imagined myself living in the city in a high rise apartment. Gene and I were always drawn to small town living, we didn’t like traffic and crowds and especially noise. We preferred the peace and quiet of a more rural atmosphere. So in every place we have lived it was always a smallerContinue reading “City Living”