We Are Back In Florida But Have No Place To Stay
January 5 through January 16 After spending Christmas and having an enjoyable stay with Pam’s family in Arizona, we returned back to Orlando late January 5th and stayed in a park and fly hotel...
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Moving onto the Boat…
Dec 11-18 This whole week has been spent doing nothing but cleaning, bringing boxes on board, unloading, storing, and just getting used to where things go in the boat. John had a mechanic come...
We Now Own A Boat Again!
Thursday, December 10 Curtis Stokes, our boat broker, started to wire the money for the boat purchase at 9:30 AM. The transaction was not finalized until 2:30 PM. We now own a 44 foot...
Florida Bound and Our First Visit To The Boat
Monday, December 7th Headed down to Florida to visit and stay at John and Jan Stewart’s House in The Villages. Got there in time to have a great salmon dinner. It has been way...
We Start Driving South
Saturday, December 5 Left Pat And Tom’s pretty early in the morning heading down to Georgia. Got to our good friends, Bonnie and Howard Keating in Flowering Branch, Georgia at around 11:30 PM. Long day driving...
We officially Leave Rockford To Start Our Adventure
December 3rd. Left Don and Katherine’s condo and headed to Pam’s sister Pat’s house in Frankfort. Don and Kathryn came over to say goodbye and see us off. It has been hard saying goodbye to...
We have an offer on the house… Everything has to go…
John talked me into trying to sell our house by ourselves, so we used the site For Sale by Owner. We decided that we would give it 6 weeks and by the 6th week...
Post Survey Negotiation
November 9-14 John received the formal written survey reports and we realized that there were quite a few things that needed to be fixed. The boat has been sitting for over 2 years and...
Survey Trip
November 2-6, 2015 John and a friend of ours, Mike Ernsdorff, flew from Rockford to Clearwater airport. They rented a car and drove to LaBelle Fl to check out the boat. Tuesday, they...
Our Great Loop Adventure Begins
Our Wonderful Houseboat is Gone Our House is Sold Here Is Our New Home October 20, 2015 Our adventure begins!!! After having finally sold our houseboat, we have accepted an offer on our house,...