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Our Awesome Travels
Taken In Quartzsite Arizona Dec 7th 2015

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Reminiscing around town with a perfect spring day.

Where are we today ?
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          Just another wonderful sunny day here sure do love it! Got an early morning walkabout most of the town, couple miles in. So nice and peaceful here at 7:30 am.Just checking out some of the houses I have owned in town . Three of them since 1982. The first one below was a very tiny place on a double lot in 1982 the price was right and worked out perfect at the time. It has been added on to and the lots severed . The original was 750 square feet now 2,700 square feet. it is very large!
my first house in Plattsville,
tiny but it worked
          Then a few years later sold that and moved to this wonderful old brick home across the street. It was wonderful and so much character, for a few years.
looked much nicer back then
        Then bought this house in 1992 around the corner with Suzie, needed fixing up and  I did most of the reno's over the next 15 years. I had a dream to make the perfect house for us and we did!
we bought this in 1992
        But then we got the itch to go fulltime so in 2006 we sold this house, made our retirement money and hit the road fulltime.
this is the same house as the pic above
that we sold in 2006, how it looks today
       The walkabout town this morning was wonderful chatted with a few people, then home to hangout with Suzie and putter around some more.
       Outside enjoying this amazing weather, short's t shirt, sandals fresh air and exercise. Hopping to use John's truck when it's available maybe tomorrow to clean up the piles of brush from the yard to the burn pile.
        But we did get some very nice quality reading time together, in the shade (too hot in the sun, can you believe IT?)
        Then as usual Suzie lets me whip up supper, tonight Shrimp kabobs on the Weber Q,  add to our tasty salad. The Kabobs sprayed with olive oil and garlic only takes a few miniute and so tasty.
shrimp kabobs on the grill
yep sure did the trick again
     What can I say, amazing weather, amazing company (Suzie), good books, taking it easy and enjoying life. Does it get much better? Think not!
      Thanks for stopping in and really hope your weather was awesome as well!
Check out the interactive map below to see where we have been this Fall and Winter..

18 comments:

  1. Fun to check out the old neighborhood. That deck really made a big difference.

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    1. Always wanted a wrap around deck and I made it happen we enjoyed it for quite a few years.

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  2. I think we must be getting just a little cool air off the lake, as it's not quite THAT warm out such that I could be wearing shorts. Sure is nice for a change though. I don't shiver when I step out the back door.

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    1. No lake here and was an amazing day, that we did enjoy.
      Maybe a downside being by the lake as I found out many years ago.
      The sunshine is wonderful though.

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  3. Isn't it fun to check out "the past"..... You can kinda visualize what life would be like if... You'd stayed ther... You changed things.... Whatever. But if you're like me, you look at that past and are thankful that life took the turns it did and you are where you are today.

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    1. Yes it sure is. fun . Sure glad that we choose this path to follow, Love the lifestyle now. Much more then working and staying in one place all year.

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  4. We shared your weather today and it helped us get some serious moving done.
    Be Safe and Enjoy!

    It's about time.

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  5. I love to go back to places we've lived to see the changes. Sometimes there are big ones and others not so much. Glad you're experiencing great weather.

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    1. Lotsa changes here in town, this is just the old part that we love.
      Loving the weather right now is amazing !

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  6. Sounds like another perfect day. Really like reading it was to hot in the sun...especially since we will turn north on I-75 tomorrow and will be in lower Michigan by the end of the week.

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    1. Keep on travelling and hope this weather follows along with you.

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  7. With three houses, you must have had the travel bug back in the early 90's. Hehe.

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    1. I have had 11 houses and moved 22 times before we went fulltime, I have always had the itch since I was a kid. Travelled to the east, coast , west coast down south in the 70's, 80's and 90's, gotta keep moving.

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  8. I've revisited a couple of places we lived during our Coast Guard career and found them all demolished, so they just live on in our memories and a few old photos.

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  9. Its good to stop and reminisce. Fond memories of the town. You've journey a lot this winter looking at your map. Great to take stock and think how far you've come, in miles and houses.

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    1. It is nice to look back at life once in awhile, but we like to keep moving forward.

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