Showing posts with label relocation exploration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label relocation exploration. Show all posts

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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charleston love affair

>> Thursday, November 5, 2009

describing our trip plans to numerous people we have had overwhelmingly positive responses when we mention charleston, south carolina.  we are here and we are in love.  this city of charleston is every bit of what people describe and more.  the city has old world charm and sophistication, it is clean and the southern people are friendly.  the food is die for and the beach is back yard.  palmetto tree lined streets make it feel tropical and the architecture european.  the city is lively and colorful and the shopping on king street is abundant.


 
view from a roof deck on market street



 
view of the park by the battery



museum on market



 
views from some of the church yards
 

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halloween with friends

>> Monday, November 2, 2009


on halloween we met up with some good peoples and delaware "ex-pats" in carolina beach;  mike rhode (surfer friend from the navel jetty crew), dave (mike's neighbor and fellow surfer from cocoa beach) and katie (mike's girlfriend).  we had a nice afternoon on the beach, 2 hour surf session, waist to occasional chest waves.  it was a lil disorganized, but you couldn't complain since it was 80 degrees and sunny on the last day of october and we were still able to "skin it."  mike and katie moved to cb in the early summer and it was cool to catch up and get the inside scoop on carolina beach and wilmington area in general.



mike/katie have a killer condo 4 blocks from the beach.  dave was nice enough to let us borrow his bikes and we rode to el zapada on the main drag and had some quality mexican food and margaritas on the upstairs deck overlooking the halloween happenings.

it was an all around good day!  thanks again guys for your wonderful hospitality.  carolina beach is definitely a place i could call home, you may see us sooner than later.

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wilmington, nc

>> Thursday, October 29, 2009



 


we have been in town for a couple days and have explored several areas in the wilmington:  wrightsville beach - small and expensive, but stylish and very "surf" oriented.  carolina/kure beaches - or pleasure island, more modest and has a good feel.  the above pictures are of the "the cove" which is the surf spot on the southern tip of pleasure island, located by fort fisher. 

today we walked around the downtown wilmington area, the picture above is from the river walk a mile long boardwalk along the banks of the river with beacoup restaurants and shops.  unlike delaware, wilmington north carolina seems fun and lots of live music - we are going to test out the nightlife halloween night

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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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