Here's a quick update....
Buyer lost his job
Buyer got new job
Buyers' mortgage application review needs verification of new job
New mortgage commitment date is 11/7
New closing date is 11/17
Bottom line is that 2008 is not a great year to be selling a home
BUT there's still a good chance our sale will go through.
Meanwhile,
We're now sleeping in the RV in our driveway because our other beds are all donated. Not sure we count as full-time RVers if we're parked in our home's driveway. :-/
We've donated all our furniture except our favorite chairs.
We're finishing up loading the RV with our stuff going to storage, today.
Tomorrow, we head to Boston until election day. We'll load the storage unit, visit Geoff's mother, and have a couple celebrations.
We'll come back to Danbury for a couple days next week then head to MD & VA to visit with my sister who will be visiting and my brother.
In mid-Nov, our travel direction will depend upon whether the house sale goes through.
In either case, we plan to be back in Danbury for Thanksgiving weekend.
By the way, we've already voted absentee so that's taken care of from our To Do list.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Friday, October 10, 2008
Our last trip as part-timers?
Well, things are looking more and more like our house sale is going through. We've passed the inspection (with no fixes needed!) and passed the radon test. The buyers loan appraiser comes next week - no problem expected there since the house is selling at a low price. The contract for the sale is under review by the buyers - we expect them to sign it any day now. The closing continues to be scheduled for Oct. 31st. With the ongoing financial debacle, we continue to be extremely thankful that we have buyers!
We just returned from two days in the Boston area staying at Circle CG Farm Campground. It was a bit further from the synagogue than we had expected but otherwise was very nice. This morning we took a bike ride about a mile to a nearby craft store where I bought some scrapbook supplies and some fall decoration items (already on sale). We had a great Break Fast with my cousins, yesterday. And, when it was time to come home, we again were wishing that we could stay longer and it was fun to think that by November, we'll be staying in the RV indefinitely!!
As always, Geoff will be posting some photos - the link is on the left of this post.
We just returned from two days in the Boston area staying at Circle CG Farm Campground. It was a bit further from the synagogue than we had expected but otherwise was very nice. This morning we took a bike ride about a mile to a nearby craft store where I bought some scrapbook supplies and some fall decoration items (already on sale). We had a great Break Fast with my cousins, yesterday. And, when it was time to come home, we again were wishing that we could stay longer and it was fun to think that by November, we'll be staying in the RV indefinitely!!
As always, Geoff will be posting some photos - the link is on the left of this post.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Our Plans - Updated Thur Oct 30
Wow! We have signed an offer on our home. Assuming that this purchase goes forward, here's our plans for the near future (updated 10/30).....
October - Move out of the house
Oct 31 - Depart in our RV
Nov. 1 - Bar Mitzvah in Boston area
Nov 2 - Visit Geoff's mother with "kids"
Nov 3 - Ellyn's B-day celebration in Boston, visit science museum to see Brian's magnet collection on exhibit and out to dinner with Logan and Brian
Nov 4-5 - Finish move out of Danbury home. If sale falls through, I guess we'll move back in at some point.
Nov 7 - Attend Services at Har Sinai near Baltimore where our former Rabbi serves
Nov 7-9 - Stay near Ocean City, MD to celebrate Ellyn's brother-in-law's Father's 80th b-day with Ellyn's sister (etc)
Nov 10-15 - Park RV in front of Ellyn's brother's home in Vienna, VA to hang out with his family and Ellyn's sister's family
Nov 17 - Current date schedule for house closing. If house sale does not go through, we will return home.
Thanksgiving Weekend - Return to Danbury area for Thanksgiving Dinner with Ellyn's work friends and for Adult B'nai mitzvah of three of our friends plus belated Thanksgiving Dinner with Logan and his wife's family as well as Brian and his friend, Katherine.
After Thanksgiving - head south with December in Carolinas & Georgia
Jan 09 - Three weeks at Walt Disney World meeting up with friends part of that time
Feb 09 - Tampa RV Super Show and FMCA Rally, Travel around Florida
Mar 09 - Hoping for Passover with cousins in Houston and perhaps spending some days in the infield of a NASCAR race if we get a space in the lottery.
We are keeping our travel calendar on google - if you want access, please let us know.
And so our adventure begins...
October - Move out of the house
Oct 31 - Depart in our RV
Nov. 1 - Bar Mitzvah in Boston area
Nov 2 - Visit Geoff's mother with "kids"
Nov 3 - Ellyn's B-day celebration in Boston, visit science museum to see Brian's magnet collection on exhibit and out to dinner with Logan and Brian
Nov 4-5 - Finish move out of Danbury home. If sale falls through, I guess we'll move back in at some point.
Nov 7 - Attend Services at Har Sinai near Baltimore where our former Rabbi serves
Nov 7-9 - Stay near Ocean City, MD to celebrate Ellyn's brother-in-law's Father's 80th b-day with Ellyn's sister (etc)
Nov 10-15 - Park RV in front of Ellyn's brother's home in Vienna, VA to hang out with his family and Ellyn's sister's family
Nov 17 - Current date schedule for house closing. If house sale does not go through, we will return home.
Thanksgiving Weekend - Return to Danbury area for Thanksgiving Dinner with Ellyn's work friends and for Adult B'nai mitzvah of three of our friends plus belated Thanksgiving Dinner with Logan and his wife's family as well as Brian and his friend, Katherine.
After Thanksgiving - head south with December in Carolinas & Georgia
Jan 09 - Three weeks at Walt Disney World meeting up with friends part of that time
Feb 09 - Tampa RV Super Show and FMCA Rally, Travel around Florida
Mar 09 - Hoping for Passover with cousins in Houston and perhaps spending some days in the infield of a NASCAR race if we get a space in the lottery.
We are keeping our travel calendar on google - if you want access, please let us know.
And so our adventure begins...
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The Interview
In September, we met up with Ken and Martha Wiseman in Massachusetts. They are seasoned RV owners who have been traveling around for many years in various styles of RVs. They have been producing a monthly podcast on RVing for a few years now. When we started getting interested in RVing, we discovered their podcasts and listened to all of them. When we found out 
they were going to come up to New England to do some Fall leaf-peeping this year, we made plans to meet up with them. The timing was perfect, as we were planning to get the house on the market and go for a short vacation to unwind.
We met up in Bourne, MA, in a campground on the Cape Cod Canal. We toured on Cape Cod for a couple days and, before we moved on, Ken interviewed us for their October issue of the "RV Navigator". He sent us a c
opy of the edited interview which will be put into the entire podcast. You can listen to just the interview here, or go get the entire podcast from their website.
they were going to come up to New England to do some Fall leaf-peeping this year, we made plans to meet up with them. The timing was perfect, as we were planning to get the house on the market and go for a short vacation to unwind.We met up in Bourne, MA, in a campground on the Cape Cod Canal. We toured on Cape Cod for a couple days and, before we moved on, Ken interviewed us for their October issue of the "RV Navigator". He sent us a c
opy of the edited interview which will be put into the entire podcast. You can listen to just the interview here, or go get the entire podcast from their website.
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