The tides of change.......

When I blogged last we were in Texas and we thought we were going to stay there another month, OH HOW THINGS CHANGE!

Rockport was fun and we met some nice people, but we didn’t feel as though we wanted to stay there another month. We went a couple times down to Corpus Christi.

We started looking in to what other places we wanted to visit and the logistics of doing that and getting back up to the north east by mid March and realized we should go east and a bit north with a few stops on the way. Then we just started looking at different areas and real estate. We were looking mostly in the Charlotte NC area and then looked at SC WOW we were very surprised at prices and the low tax rate as well.  We contacted a realtor and we were fortunate enough to have people in the area that went to see a couple condos for us, and report back to us. The condos came pretty much furnished and were reasonable, but they had a fairly high monthly fee. Then we decided we couldn’t do anything sight unseen anyway so,  we  decided we would visit a friend in Georgia then head  to Myrtle Beach and see some other people we know  and look at the two condos!  The condos were actually very nice and quite functional and large, but considering we live in an RV anything looks big to us!  Then we discussed looking at homes in gated and golf communities with our realtor, Ray. He showed us a ton of homes and we looked on line as well. We saw older homes and new construction. Model homes, older homes, they all start to meld together. We decided that if we wanted to get MOST of the things we wanted in a home we would need to build… so we signed the papers to have a small home built outside of Myrtle Beach in Longs SC.

 

I know many of you could be surprised at this most recent event, but it has always been our intent to travel a year or two or more then settle somewhere warmer and with less taxes. This fits the bill. We will continue to travel for the spring and summer until the house is complete probably late summer.  Our plan would be to sell the large motor home we now have and buy something a bit smaller as we wont be living in it full time, only taking long trips!

In the mean time we are staying right on the beach in SC and although we have had some cool weather, heavy rain and wind at times, we have also had some absolutely lovely weather. We love walking the beach here and so does Sophie. She walks with big shells in her mouth and leaves them by the RV and picks them up again!  We like it so much we have extended again and will stay until March 4^th!

The shells and the sunsets have been awesome! We have seen our friends a couple times but mostly we just like walking on the beach and driving around getting lost! We figure from our new house in Longs, SC we will be about 15- 20 minutes to the beach. We may not love the traffic in the summer months at the beach but the off-season will be wonderful! There is every restaurant you could want, a DD for Dave a few big box stores grocery stores, entertainment within a half hour! I am pretty sure we will be having company while we live here!

So our next step will be to take a road trip through Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa , SD, ND, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and ending up in the northeast for the month of July until the house here is finished! But first we will take a short trip by car only to visit Kristin for her birthday and Korin and Brian for Gavin’s birthday! 

our house plan

 our new neighborhood

our new neighbor 

 heed the warnings at our RV park!

 foam at the beach

 sunset Myrtle Beach

sunsets

 Sophie and the shell

 so many shells

 a lovely morning

 a funny picture

More to come on that trip! I just wanted to post something as people tell me they look forward to the blog entries ….Oh and by the way , today we went to AAA and got the trip route for our next adventure…WOW that’s a lotta books and maps!