new california residents

>> Saturday, February 27, 2010

it took us 3 days to get from the atlantic to the pacific coasts and 2 days to find an apartment.  we are officially california residents.  our apartment is 3 miles to the dog beach in huntington beach!

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we have decided...

>> Monday, February 22, 2010

even with the california goverment in the pot, mud slides, earthquakes, etc, etc... we believe we will be most happy living in southern california.  so we have decided to move to huntington beach.

i have been researching the most efficient cost effective ways for moving 2800 miles.  tomorrow we will drive my subaru out to california lease an apartment leave the car there, fly back to delaware rent a 16" truck with a car carrier and then drive that monster accross country.

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oh steamboat i love thee, let me count the ways

>> Wednesday, February 10, 2010

 
1)  beautiful views during the day...
2)  and night
 
3)  supernatural wildlife...
 
4)  that you can hand feed
 
5)  winter wonderland
6)  amazing terrain
7)  lots of amazing terrain
8)  my family lives here
9)  and it's all american.

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us olympic ski team...

>> Wednesday, February 3, 2010

have been practicing at steamboat.  it is truly unreal watching them ski.

 
  
  
 

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day 102: wilmington, de to steamboat springs, co

so we got back to delaware, put the camper up for sale and visited with everyone for 2 weeks before we flew out to steamboat springs colorado to ski/snowboard for 2 weeks.   we are staying with my parents who moved here for the season.  we have been coming here for our anniversary for the past 4 years, this place is nothing short of amazing.  the mountain produces the most perfect champagne powder and the people are friendly and perpetually stoked on skiing and boarding.

 
my parents condo is on the second floor right above the stop sign.  right behind condo is the gondola to the peak.

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blogger back story

my wife and i have had a fairly mundane life so far. we live in northern delaware where we met, fell in love, bought a house and got married. we enjoy traveling, camping, surfing and eating well and we do not have any children. we are in our mid-thirties and have average careers, not glamorous or high paying, but consistent none the less. as time passes day to day in our mundane life there has been something growing stronger inside of us for years. that something is the need to break out of our slumber and live life to the fullest. we want to see the world and find a place by the edge of the sea to call home and open our own business. we keep revisiting this idea, reinventing the plan, but never following through. last december we got serious... we wrote down goals, step by step, to move towards achieving our dreams. we created a budget and decided we could feasible travel in our pop-up camper for 3 months exploring the coast in search for the place we wanted to live. we saved money for traveling, we got our house appraised, we worked on curb appeal & we sold cumbersome unessential possessions. last big step was to sell our house and our target was September. we finally got our house on the market on friday, september 25. we had
several contingency plans for different times when it would sell. to our astonishment the house sold in 48 hours!

on surfing

in 2004 my parents took my entire family on a Hawaiian cruise. during this cruise i had a life altering experience... a surf lesson on the island of maui. being a water person already, i immediately i had a definitive connection with surfing. upon arrival back in delaware i went out and purchased my first surf board. i started surfing the local breaks occasionally. i got my closest friends into it and they too ended up buying boards. occasionally turned into frequently and then every day off of work. my first board turned into several and then into a quiver. surfing started as a hobby, a mere fascination and now is a lifestyle that provides me spiritual well being. the connection to a higher power is never more present than during a good dawn session. out in the line up the stressful hustle bustle of life melts away and i can get quiet with god and recharge my internal battery. i'm sure surfing means different things to different people, but for me it is about the soul. i feel i am a better person because what surfing does for me and i will pursue that feeling for the rest of my life.

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