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Two drifters off to see the world…
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We flew from Rapid City to BWI yesterday. Got in early enough to take Amtrak to DC to visit the US Capitol Building The Capitol has many statues – each state is allowed 2 but we were there to seek out one in particular. Joseph Ward http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ward_(1838-1889) was the great grandfather of Heather Ylitalo Ward…
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Yesterday, Saturday 11/21, we started with our Christmas present from Helen Jo Howard- Dick’s step mother. She and Dick’s dad enjoyed a helicopter ride over 30 years ago in the same place. Sweet! It was FABULOUS! The bird’s eye views of Mt. Rushmore and Crazy Horse were stunning. Perfect weather helped… And yes. It is…
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What a great day. Drove to Spearfish Canyon late morning. The weather was ideal – blue skies and 50 degrees! You drive along a road through the canyon with stops for things to see. First was Bridal Veil Falls. Then farther up the road is a trail that leads to Roughlock Falls. A 1 mile…
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First things first. Chris says she has never seen me so relaxed and open-hearted. I would say much the same about her. No doubts or misgivings about our plans and plots. Fun, fun, fun. There is land, lots of land, out here. We left Sioux Falls this morning with the plan to drive to Mitchell,…
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Yesterday we drove from Northfield MN to Sioux Falls, SD. It is, as they say, “The Great Plains”. Flat farm country for mile after mile. Very peasant but very redundant after the first half hour. The big excitement for the day was that we stopped for lunch at the Blue Line Diner in Newell SD…
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After a couple of years of deciding to take the leap and 3+ months of planning and execution (figuring out where to go and when, researching residency and taxes, giving bunches of stuff to family and friends, starting the sorting and winnowing of boxes of family papers and photos, many trips to Goodwill and similar…
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We are well underway on the adventure now. This week was quite the roller coaster. The buyer’s inspection found a number of things that need to be addressed-chimney repairs, vermiculite removal, etc. Then they raised the question of whether there was an unknown or undisclosed underground oil tank, about which we know/knew nothing. For a…
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Here we are just 16 days until the closing. That may seem like a lot of time but we will be on the road for a few days next weekend taking furniture and family heirlooms to Seth & Megan in Cornwall-on-Hudson as well as to Caitlin and Alex in Ruxton. And then, while the closing…
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since the last posting things have been a whirlwind around here. We have a projected closing date of 11/14 which means we have to be out of here with the place empty and broom clean for the buyer to do a walk through on 11/12. We got rid of a lot of “stuff” at the…
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Today was the first day the house was on the market and there was an open house and multiple people looked + several private showings. Just talked to the realtor and found out that the first person who looked at it made a CASH offer above our asking price! Beyond our wildest hopes!
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