After three months of packing, boxing, sorting, labeling, cleaning, making multiple trips to Goodwill with donations, setting up movers, looking at rental properties…..we are done. And oh boy, does it feel good! The rain moved out yesterday afternoon and the weather is perfect right now. Sunny and about 70. Light breeze. It feels great to be out of the desert. We gave it a year. The desert is one of those areas that is very polarizing….you either like it or you hate it. No middle ground. For us….it just didn’t work, particularly when the temps rose above 100, which it did 126 times last Summer. And did I mention 20 of those days it was over 110? You think you know heat? Go to Arizona in the Summer with an elevation of 2,500 ft and never any clouds to lessen the powerful rays of the sun.

We finished unloading the truck around noon yesterday and promptly headed into New Smyrna to find a local restaurant for some real food (remember, we’ve been living on fast food and pimento cheese for 5 days) and have a beer. We ended up at the Yellow Dog, a great little spot on historic Canal Street. Dogs, or course, were welcome there and Tuck settled in under our table searching for discarded fries. Life was good once again.

I’ll post some pictures later of the historic downtown area and the beautiful beaches here. We’re less than 5 minutes from the Atlantic. We scouted out an area late yesterday where we can watch the Sunday afternoon launch of the new SpaceX Falcon rocket. This is one of the most powerful rockets ever launched. Thanks to Elon Musk and his team, the space program is back on track after being pretty much shut down after NASA ended the space shuttle program (more on that later).

That’s about it for now. Stay tuned and thanks for reading.

Cheers,

Wayne, Claudia & Tuck