Another Day of House Hunting

We met with our realtor, Jeanne, today and looked at 4 more houses. We had found 2 houses on Zillow.com and included them in our list for today even though they are

One of the houses we found on Zillow.com was a couple of blocks from the Vero mall, Sam's Club and WalMart Supercenter. The lot was large enough to park the RV and the house was in good shape, but the kitchen would need to be updated.

The second house we found on Zillow.com was in Sebastian and is on a double lot - definitely enough room for the RV. We had seen photos of the house on Zillow and the kitchen had been updated. We met the current owners and then walked through the house and around the property. The house doesn't need to be updated and doesn't need any work before moving in.

Before we went back to the RV, we stopped a JP Matty's for coffee and dessert. Mike had one of Matty's muffins and I ordered the cheesecake.

We stopped at Indian River RV in Sebastian to buy a LED light bulb for our porch light, but they had to order it and it will be in in a couple of days.

From all of the houses we looked at yesterday and today, we've narrowed our list down to 4 houses that we like. We're going to spend tonight going over the pros and cons of each house and decide if we want to make an offer on one of them.

Our First Day of House Hunting

We spent yesterday going through the house listings that our realtor had sent us and put together a list of houses we would like to look at. 

We called our realtor yesterday and Nancy told us that she was sick with the flu and that Jeanne would be helping us. We met with Jeanne this morning and put together a list of houses to view. Jeanne called to set up viewing times for the homes that are occupied and then she took us house hunting.

We viewed houses in Vero Beach and Sebastian - some we took a quick look at and marked off of the list. One house was turn-key and beautifully decorated and some needed various degrees of work. We looked at 10 homes today and a couple of them are on our list for consideration.

We're meeting with Jeanne again tomorrow to look at a few more houses that we couldn't get to today.

Our internet service through Verizon is still really slow, so we've subscribed to Tengo Internet at the campground for 2 weeks for a cost of $24.95.

Kissimmee to Vero Beach

We left Kissimmee today at 12:30 after having lunch and drove east on Hwy 192 to I-95 just west of Melbourne. We stopped at the rest area south of Melbourne to walk Tinker. We exited I-95 at Exit 156 and drove east on Hwy 512 the short distance to Sunshine Travel RV Resort and arrived there at 2:30. We drove 83 miles today.

We stopped by the office (which is closed on weekends) and picked up our information packet that was in a box by the office door. The packet contained information on the campground, a campground map and the gate code for the entrance gate.

We are in site #65 with full hookups (50 amp) and we have a nice size patio. We will be here for 2 weeks while house hunting in the Vero Beach - Sebastian area. We are paying $120 a week for our stay here through a special price for Encore Parks.

We have a weak cell phone signal here and the signal for our internet through Verizon is really weak and the connection is slow. The campground offers wi-fi service through Tengo Internet and depending on how slow our Verizon service is, we may have to subscribe to Tengo for the time that we are here.

House Hunting & New Year's Eve

We met with our realtor here in Kissimmee and St. Cloud this weekend and looked at a couple of houses for sale, but didn't find anything we wanted to make an offer on.

We are spending a quiet evening here at the RV for New Year's Eve. We can hear fireworks going off in the housing areas around us and they don't appear to bother Tinker too much.

This coming year will be quite a change for us once we find a house to buy. We are going over to Vero Beach for 2 weeks next month to look for a house in that area. Our realtor in Vero Beach has been e-mailing us listings of available houses and we have a list of the ones that we are interested in.

Happy New Year to one and all.

Christmas and our 45th Anniversary

We went over to my brother's house Christmas dinner. We were joined by my niece Kathy and her family. Then after dinner my nephews opened their presents and then we all posed for a family Christmas photo.

What a great looking family!!

From Kissimmee

It was cold this morning when we got up and there was even a thick coating of frost on the car.

From Kissimmee

Today is our 45th wedding anniversary and we went to

Finally decorated our Christmas tree

It is so nice to have our refrigerator working again! We had Doug come back over a couple of days ago and help us get the frig back into the cabinet. It only took about an hour to slide it back into the cabinet. It would have taken less time, but it kept getting caught on metal place in the cabinet. Once we figured that out the frig slid right into the cabinet.

I finally got around to decorating our Christmas tree yesterday. I normally would have done sooner that this, but with the refrigerator doors sitting up in the passenger seat and on the dash there wasn't room for the tree.

I've been collecting ornaments as souvenirs and now have so many that our tree won't hold all of them. I used the ones I bought this year traveling around the Southeast and added some that we bought in Alaska last year.

Here is a photo of our tree after I finished decorating it. You can see the refrigerator back in its cabinet in the background.

From Kissimmee

Here is a photo I took this evening of our Christmas tree sitting up on the dash.

From Kissimmee

Refrigerator working with new cooling unit

The refrigerator is working with the new cooling unit installed. We have it running on electricity for now until we get it back into the cabinet.

Mike made the final wiring connections this afternoon.

From Refrigerator Repair

Mike has called David at RV Cooling Warehouse (where we bought the cooling unit) to ask him some questions about installing the new cooling unit. David has been great about explaining the installation and giving pointers to help with the installation. We have been very impressed with the service from David at RV Cooling Warehouse and will definitely recommend him to anyone who has problems with their RV frig.

I printed a wiring schematic for the circuit board for the refrigerator that I found on the internet and that helped simplify reconnecting the wiring.

It will be so nice to have the refrigerator working again! We've been using coolers for the last 2 weeks and the novelty wore off a week ago.

We're going to let the frig run for a few days before we call Doug to come back over and help us put it back in the cabinet.