Tee Minus 6 days

till the adventure begins

By Time2Geaux Unplugged

July 2^nd, 2018

House Closing

Our house closes in six day and we have been working like slaves to get everything ready. All the furniture is out of the house after making runs to Dallas, Baton Rouge and our Son who lives locally to drop off furniture and boxes of childhood memories for all of our children. We have one son in Oregon and have shipped his memories to him but he was spared any furniture. When you clean out a house you realize just how much waste you have. We are finding four or five bottles of shampoo, who knows why… I could see one and the bottle you are using but five! Then there are those items that you felt you just had to have but once you had them you didn’t really use. For example, I purchase a Mad River canoe, with the hope of using it for camping and exploring the local waterways. Our first trip out we got wet and only used it several times after that. The wood dry-rotted on it (should have purchase one with plastic rails) and now I have a repair job and no home to do it.

The house if finished but the shop still needs to be cleaned out because we have been working on restoring a sailboat and still need to hanging on to a lot of tools. With the hope of getting it in the water before we leave the area it has been a big drain on time. We brought it back from Louisiana last fall think we would have plenty of time to finish it… now it is a sprint to the end! We are almost done, meaning we will stop work on Wednesday of this week, finished or not.

We did have a break from the manual labor of getting a house ready for sale and cleaning it out after selling. As one of the last responsibilities from my career, I had a convention to attend which I was the chairman, meaning I couldn’t skip it this time. We traveled to Marco Island, Florida and attended the Siemens User Summit. While I was in meeting all day and networking dinners in the evening, JoAnn had to make the sacrifice of spending long days on the white sandy beaches of Florida’s Gulf Coast.

As I sit here finishing my Acadie French Farmhouse Ale from Bayou Teche Brewing, (which I picked up on or last trip to Louisiana when we stayed at the brewery as part of the Harvest Hope program, I hear the boat and the shop calling out to me to get back to work, so off I go.

We are finding that the excitement of living a nomadic life hasn’t kicked in yet as we are still in task mode. Our plans are to move at the end of the week to Quintana Beach RV Resort, which is about 30 minutes from here. We still have about a week of things we need to complete after closing, like dentist, haircut appt and doctor visit for checkup before we hit to road. We both are so ready for that day that we can say that the Adventure has started.