August & September were spent at a rather breakneck pace, as we finalized plans for our October 1st departure. The house needed to be completely cleaned up, with every cabinet, closet, attic, and garage space gone through, packed up & emptied out....all the while keeping things spotless for Open House days & Realtor showings-ugh! We also needed to change our Domicile to Florida, arrange for mail forwarding, move all banking online and shut off phone and cable.
The most important thing was to make sure we said goodbye to all of our friends, so we staged the "Bill & Laurie Farewell Tour". We scheduled it for the week before we were to leave, thinking that we would have all of our work done & would have time to enjoy....NOT! Amidst all the craziness, we had 5 nights of local stops to make on our tour: Baja & Money Band on September 22, Lalapalooza & The Brit on the 23rd, Brophy's for Monday Night Football on the 26th, English Ales in Marina for Firkin Night on the 27th & Flanagan's on the 28th. Whew! We had so many people at Baja, that we didn't get to talk to all them, let alone all our "parking lot" car & motorcycles pals...so we had to make a second unannounced stop at Baja on the 29th! All in all, it was an amazing tour :) We have wonderful friends that we will truly miss! Hopefully, they all want to vacation somewhere warm & floating...
Our early am departure out of Monterey on October 1st was welcome, simply because sitting on a plane meant we got to rest! More soon....
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