Slept in this morning and woke up to coffee and Cinnabons delivered to the bedside. I think I could get used to this… I turned on the news and they were all excited about how cold it is. “It’s 7:30 and 46 degrees out this morning and it’s not going above 57 today…” They made it sound like the end of the world. What are these people acting so crazy about? It’s late November and it’s supposed to be cold! 46 degrees sounds about right for early morning. We’re in North Florida, it gets cold here. How long have these people been living here? I could understand it being worth mentioning if we were in Miami or the Keys, but it gets chilly in Miami occasionally too. Ohhh, 46 degrees in November, what are we going to do? Must be a slow news day.
24 hours from now, I’ll be about 1,000 miles north of here, where this morning it was 23 and not going above 42 for the day. I’ll be there a week, I wish I could stay the entire winter. I want to be independently wealthy for so many reasons but one of the biggest is, I’d like to have multiple houses. Reverse snowbird. Live the winter up north, visit the south during the summer, live in New England during the fall… And if I were wealthy enough to have these multiple houses, Pennsylvania wouldn’t be far enough north. I want something like Upper Peninsula Michigan, Baffin Island Canada, Norway. I want it cold and brutal. Of course, it’s expensive to live like I want to live in those climates so, I’ll have to have a boatload of money. I want a building I can live in while it’s buried under 20 feet of snow. Isolated and self sufficient. That’s what I want. Some people dream of a tropical drink with their toes in the sand, I dream of coffee rapidly cooling from the blizzard conditions.
Oh well, a guy can dream can’t he? I’ll be up there this week, standing in the woods and fantasizing about the future. Hopefully, there won’t be too much fantasizing, soon it should be planning. While we’re up there we’ll do a little looking around but I don’t expect much to get done being Thanksgiving week and all. Also, the only thing the area has to offer is plenty of hunting space so this equates to their “tourist season”. The land prices soar during these few months because all the tourists think it would be cool to buy some land and visit once a year. In fact when Jerry was looking to buy the property he’s on now, the price was almost double when he called from a 904 area code. When he had his brother (who lives ten miles away) call, the price was much more reasonable. So, our plan is to look around this week and get a feel for the availability in all the areas. This summer, Teresa will go up there for a few weeks and make the calls. If the right property presents itself we’ll get it. If not, she’ll get the perk test done on the front end of Jerry’s property and we’ll drop a trailer on it until the right property makes itself known. By the end of summer, we’ll either have the right land or a place to park ourselves until we do have it. If things go as planned, I don’t see us being here in Florida through next winter… or so I hope.
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