winter mode

… or seasonal mood.

Looks like a nice place to be in late November. Took a while to get here, but now we are…

Picture above taken Saturday, as we relax at a friend's place after having made the usual round-trip to the stores and farmers market in Spring Hill.

what we left…

It was cloudy, wet and cold the days before we left Norway, so not all that hard to stay in winter mode and prepare for the trip to a warmer climate.

A week earlier it was snow on the ground and quite cold. That's when we started counting days to our vacation.

traveling light

We don't pack all that much for these winter vacations, as we have pretty much all we need for a long stay stored at our place in Florida. That's the practical side of owning our own “home away from home” here.

We arrived pretty late – around midnight, and the last thing one wants to do is to start unpacking a lot of stuff right away when one arrives in the middle of the night after a long and tiring journey. No need to hurry now, so we may wait a few more days before we go through the entire unpacking process.

Another great thing is that we have very good neighbors here, that wish us welcome and help us out with the little things that always need to be taken care of when we have been away for a while.

One of our neighbors even came over with a nice, good tasting, Thanksgiving dish for dinner the evening after our arrival. Very much appreciated!

sincerely georg; sign

Hageland 27.nov.2016
last rev: 27.nov.2016

tiring trip

Long waits at intermediate airports add up, and it took us about 26 hours from we left home in Norway till we could turn the key at our place in Florida. By then Gunlaug and I were pretty tired to say the least.

schiphol

… 9 hours to cross the Atlantic Ocean…

atlanta intl

Good thing we could go to sleep in our own bed right away, and that we did not even have to unpack or prepare anything. It was all as we left it back in February, and I only had to set the Air Conditioning system for “occupation”.

storm in september caused damage

When the tropical storm Hermine hit Northern parts of Florida back in September this year, almost two feet of seawater covered the lawn at our friends place down by the coast – where you see Gunlaug seated on the first picture in main article. He had 6 inches of water in his ground floor living room, as the surge peaked in the middle of the night.

Lots of damage in low-lying areas, mainly caused by the storm surge as the storm passed by out at sea. No damage that I have observed near my place, which is about 30 feet above sea level and pretty safe from flooding.