I spent the first few weeks of January in Vermont visiting friends and skiing and as it turns out, selling our house! I went from skiing at Mad River Glen with Terry in 6° temperatures to lying on the beach with a friend in Florida in 72° temps last week.
At the end of December, we decided to winterize and leave the RV at my parents’ house in VA and drive our Subaru to VT. Since we still have our home in VT (albeit empty of furnishings), we decided to stay there on an air mattress with our sleeping bags and enjoy a bit of winter. We had quite a few showings while we were there and on MLK day had 3 offers to consider. The current contract on our house has settlement set for 3/18 so if all goes well, a new family will be enjoying our little slice of heaven in Huntington very soon. We really enjoyed visiting our friends in VT and skiing, but it’s time to resume our RV trip next week.
My friend Patti Schule is one of a small group of JMU alums (and Sigma Kappa sisters) who try to meet at a beach for girl week-ends each of the last 5 years. Last year, Patti planned to stay in Ft Myers Beach this January, and she invited our group to come the last week of her rental. So I flew down Thursday (1/21), just before Jonas blew through the mid Atlantic. Sadly the other sorority sisters were unable to join us on the trip for various reasons, but it’s probably just as well because I doubt they would have been able to get a flight from Richmond and DC areas with all the storm activity. While our MD/DC friends were getting dumped on, I was walking the beach and Terry was hoping some snow would blow his way in VT – it did not.
After leaving Florida, I came to my parents’ house in southern Virginia and will be celebrating my dad’s 84th birthday tomorrow! I arrived after much of Jonas’ snow melted here, and Terry will be arriving in a few days. Then we’ll decide whether to spend a few days at Jekyll Island, Georgia or hit the panhandle of Florida before heading back West. We want to return to Big Bend National Park in Texas where we had far too little time. Then we’ll head to NM & CO for a few days of skiing and continue our trip from one extreme to the other!