THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, April 8, 2010
Formerly
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to the gulf stream waters
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to the New York Island by Lorrie Baird
A FORK IN THE ROAD
by Lorrie Baird
The sun is slanting
through the RV window, spilling a path of light across my keyboard. I can hear two Sand Hill Cranes chortling as they make their sunset reconnais- sance around the lake. A brisk wind off the Gulf is rustling the palm trees. People are walking their dogs or simply enjoying a sunset stroll, stopping to visit friends along the way. It’s an evening as any other at Three Lakes RV Resort…for everyone except us. This is our last night as fulltime RVers. By tomor- row at this time we will be homeowners once again. When Jim retired 3 years ago this was not in our plans. Here’s what happened in
a nutshell. We stumbled across a beautiful com- munity we didn’t know was there, right next door to where our beloved aunt lives. We figured we couldn’t afford to live there (and three years ago we wouldn’t have been able to.) We toured Glen Lakes in Weeki Wachee anyway and ate lunch at the gor- geous clubhouse there. We looked around at all the happy people and told ourselves not to get used to this because we still figured we couldn’t fit a Glen Lakes house into our budget. To our surprise we looked at three affordable houses and fell in love with the third. (I loved the charming dollhouse appeal of the home. Jim swooned over the over- sized two car garage. We both were happy that the pool is only steps from the front door.) We ran the numbers and they worked in our favor. Although the
house was drastically re- duced, we came in with a low offer. It was accepted immediately. We’ve been in a mild state of shock ever since. Now don’t go on think-
ing that we won’t be back to New Hampshire the Beautiful. We have be- loved family both north and south. We will be docking in the Lakes Re- gion on May 1st where the RV will stay and serve us well as a summer cottage. It was my intention not to share this news with you until the fall…but I never could keep a secret when the news is this big. Be- sides, as you can imagine this decision has turned our lives upside down, if not inside out. And we couldn’t be happier about it.
Although the house
came fully furnished it has served as rental unit and some of the furniture was so worn every time we sat on the couch we expected springs to break out any minute and attack our Chihuahuas. There is no furniture store along U.S. 19 we haven’t prowled
for bargains. Once eager sales people now yawn when we come through the door. While our adventures as fulltime RVers have been priceless…the recession and resulting stock mar-
from New Hampshire vis- ited us and we all went to Glen Lakes. We couldn’t go into the house because it was rented but we drove by and parked outside. I showed them our guest room window overlook-
This is our last night as fulltime
RVers. By tomorrow at this time we will be homeowners once again.
ket volatility clipped our wings. Jim missed mess- ing around with power tools that actually belong to him and that age-old male pursuit known as “puttering.” As for me, I’m thrilled to have a “real” front door again. Both of us missed the sense of community that can only come when you put down roots…even if it’s for 7 months. During our fulltime RVing lifestyle we have met many, many friendly people…but very few lasting friends. Speaking of friends…last week four of our friends
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lake, pool and golf course. As we sat there with some of our dearest NH friends in this beautiful Floridian setting I offered up heart- felt thanks for being so blessed that we can now claim two wonderful areas as home. I’ve always joked, “If you
want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.” If anyone was to tell us last year that we would be homeowners again, the laugh would be on us. We’re still smiling.
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