A Home Free Global Life
February has been a busy month with more than average socializing, which was to be expected when we planned to catch up with a number of friends who now live in Florida either part time or full time. We moved to Gary and Barb’s house on January 31st and are here until Febuary 17th when we move to Sarasota to stay with another friend Deb. Read more
We did not wish to say anything until the dust settled on this most recent round of events. Blair had cataract surgery on both eyes during the past couple of weeks. In a fortuitous event, Blair met one of the top cataract surgeons in the US a few months ago. The Dr was on Blair’s dive boat and when Blair found out what he did, proceeded to ask a number of questions, which resulted in the Dr suggesting Blair come and see him once we arrived in Florida. Read more
We are enjoying our time in Florida, particularly re-connecting with long time friends from Cayman who left a number of years ago. We are spending a lot of time with friends of 15 years, Gary & Barb, and this past Monday enjoyed a lovely lunch in Fort Myers with Ken & Glenny who left Cayman 7 years ago…..where did the time go!!! Read more
Although not planned, it is interesting that we begin our new lifestyle at the start of a new year, so in addition to ringing in 2018 we celebrated embarking on this journey. Make no mistake, leaving Cayman after 15 years was very difficult and more than once we wondered if we had made the right decision. But, there was no turning back and now just a few days later, we are confident this is the right path for us.
These four words seem to be the theme of our last few weeks in Grand Cayman. Each time we do something we comment this is “for the last time”
We went for our last scuba dive this past Saturday; our last Christmas morning bike ride followed by champagne brunch at Blue Cilantro with Bill & Annie; our last Dashing Thru the Sand run on Boxing Day followed by an island tour to Rum Point with lunch at Kaibo Yacht Club. Read more
As our time living in Grand Cayman comes to a close we are trying to get in as many dives as we can knowing it may be a few years before we have this opportunity again. Read more
Planning to spend one year in Europe, we have run into a few stumbling blocks regarding the time we are allowed to be there. Most people I have talked to about our home free life have never heard of Schengen and I must admit I don’t recall the first time I heard of this. Read more
A few months ago we realized that a couple of fellow nomadic travelers, who we have become internet friends with, would be stopping by Grand Cayman on a cruise as they headed to Chile. Eagerly we made plans to meet in person and yesterday was the day. Jess and Tom arrived in Grand Cayman where we picked them up at the cruise ship terminal and drove to the Yacht Club for lunch at Morgan’s Restaurant. The time flew by as we exchanged stories and they asked about our upcoming travel plans. Jess and Tom have been full time nomads for the past 5 years and their blog has been a wonderful source of information as we were planning to become home free.
You can read their blog post and “interview” with us at the link below:
http://www.worldwidewaftage.com/2017/11/day-3cruise-to-south-americapart-1.html
Jess and Tom enjoying lunch at Morgan’s