This is Matt and I guess I will start off this blog with the first posting. We have never done this before, so give us a break if the format looks a little amateurish at first. We are in Hilton Head staying at the Healey's place in Wexford. They have been more than gracious in letting some homeless people move into their home. We got the good news yesterday that Monkey Business is finally ready for delivery in North Palm Beach, Florida. We close on her tomorrow and we begin to drive our car and a small truck to Florida in the morning.
Some background: when discussing my retirement a couple of years ago, Judy pointed out that my life would change dramatically, but hers would be about the same. Her big change was having me around the house all the time -- not the best thing after me being gone almost every day and traveling most of my life. You know the saying, "for better or worse, but not for lunch." Judy brought up the idea of shedding the large house, along with its lawn service, pool service, trash service, cleaning service, HVAC service, bug killing service, Town taxes, County taxes, State taxes, club dues and the never ending maintenance of a 13 year old house. Solution, which I loved, was to get a boat large enough to live on and sail the East Coast from Maine to the Bahamas. The idea percolated and when I did retire in June 2009, the quest to shed the house and its obligations began.
We listed our home for sale in October 2009 in the worst real estate market of our lives. Something that we are actually very good at, as we sold our home in Connecticut after ten years for about a 30% loss. Took us until July 2010 to get a deal, but we were very happy with the net proceeds and it was enough to begin the nautical adventures.
We hope to keep you advised of our whereabouts with some semi-interesting dialog and photos. Most of all, we want to keep in touch with our wonderful friends.
More to come..............
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