Well folks, today, Monday April 25, 2016 begins our last week in the Eclipse Condo. We will have all furniture and misc. items removed by Saturday and the final items (for our personal use in the temporary quarters and later on the yacht) will be totally out by Monday, May 2, 2016. We will then take a walk about, checking for cleanliness, then prepare to turn over keys and access fobs along with pertinent information to the new owner.
Our focus then will turn totally toward the acceptance, re-fitting, and re-commissioning of the new water borne home. The anxiety involved in uprooting, packing and removing our belongings from the apartment is strong, and I can certainly appreciate those feeling among the female partners in my life ( I of course refer to my life partner, Charlotte and to the two fur babies who share our lives, The Duchess and Penney). I am hoping that once the apartment is cleared, the keys turned over and we close that page of our lives, we can all look forward to the new adventures awaiting us aboard the soon to be named Misty Lady.
We already have a new address, soon our land line phones will no longer be operative and the television/internet connections will become disabled. We will use the hotel’s internet for the time being, and then will switch over to the internet and TV systems that are being installed for the yacht.
While this week will continue to be chaotic and anxiety filled, I am confident that by the time we actually do the settlement/closing on the 4th for the condo transaction and pivot toward the settlement/closing on the yacht, our focus will be on the adaptation to living on a yacht and enjoying the freedoms from land borne obligations. Such things as a mortgage, condo fees, property tax, multiple levels of insurance policies, and multiple utility bills will be a thing of the past.
Stick with us folks, it will soon get very interesting and FUN!!
Author: harv1941
Just a summary, I am 84 years of age, retired in July 2013 and settled down to promoting the dangers of bacterial meningitis, which killed my beloved son, Mike in 2009. My wife, Charlotte, and I embarked on an adventure of live aboard cruising, aboard a large Blue Water motor yacht. While our beginning was rather fraught with hurdles, we continued to look forward to the day we moved aboard the Misty Lady and cruise the eastern seaboard and associated waterways. After more than four years of life aboard this Bluewater Motor Yacht, I developed an advanced problem due to interaction with medications and experienced rather frightening balance problems. Therefore, getting on and off the yacht was fraught with danger of falling between the docks and the boat's hull. Walking the docks was also problematic considering that our yacht club docks were all floating docks and my balance problem was a danger during the walk from our yacht's docking slip to the clubhouse or out to the DC Wharf facilities and our car housed in the yacht club's reserved garage. SO, we had to regretfully put the Misty Lady up for sale and move back on shore. We moved on shore, first into a condo apartment in Alexandria, then after two years there, we relocated to the city of Newport News, in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Our original desired location was in the city of Hampton, Virginia, which is the oldest English-speaking settlement in the United States having been established originally in 1610. My ancestors came to this country through this settlement in the mid 1600s and lived in that area for around 100 years before beginning a migration of one portion of our family toward the west.
I looked forward to moving back to this area and exploring the roots of my family, both maternal and paternal ancestry, but we found a great house in the Newport News area and became ensconced in the terrific neighborhood of Kiln Creek. My wife, being still actively employed, received a substantial offer in a position with a government contractor firm back up in Northern Virginia. So we put the Newport News house up for sale, receiving and accepting an offer withing two days. We then relocated back up to the city of Alexandria and into another high rise condo. My wife reached a point where considerations for retirement were becoming very important. She indicated that she really didn't want to retire in Alexandria, so once again we began a house search in the Tidewater area, this time in the City of Williamsburg and in a community restricted to 55+ age owners. We found the ideal location, initiated the sale and closing for our retirement home. We then put our condo on the market. Alas, the market was not as robust as before so we had to change asking price a couple of time, but finally the Alexandria Condo was sold. Now we are set to enjoy the great locations found here in the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area, considering that we are history buffs and there are literally hundreds of historical sites in this segment of our nation. Of course living in Williamsburg is the epitome of history living life.
So, now we are in our retirement home, in a great retirement type community. A great clubhouse with a fine dining restaurant, a grill/pub, an award winning PGA designed golf course and miles of walking trails. Looking forward to my wife's eventual full retirement and the two of us visiting all up and down the east coast historical spots.
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