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Blogging took a backseat to packing, loading, driving and finally unloading our stuff in our new location in Miami Beach, Florida. After 6 months in Emerald Isle, we are planning for this to be home at least for the next two years. The jury is still out on how long the honeymoon with our new town will last --some have predicted 2 weeks, others 2 months--, but we’re burning the ships and are committed to giving this a try.

For us it is hard to grasp that in the previous 12-month period we have moved from Chapel Hill, our home for 20+ years, to a Durham apartment, then to our Emerald Isle beach house and now to Miami.

All the moves came loaded with a lot of life lessons for us. First, learning to live in a one bedroom/one bath apartment. At least this change was relatively mild since we only changed our four walls. The Emerald Isle move included getting used to living fairly secluded although at a fairly large house. This one offered somewhat new surroundings but a fairly tame change in comparison. Now, a new city with few personal contacts and our own personal introduction to the concept of "high-density living". Somehow I don’t think biking to the Post Office will continue to be part of my daily routine. Who knows what will take its place.

It feels good to start unpacking and finally getting rid of the boxes. We finally get to see some stuff that we haven’t seen in almost a year. And now the challenge is going to be to fit all the kitchen utensils, plate sets, glasses, pots and pans in a kitchen about a fourth the size of what we had in Chapel Hill. I see some more lessons in my future!

I hope my 2+ readers appreciate seeing some of the pictures from our new setting and my future entries which will certainty contrast life in our previous settings, to our new beach town with just a few more tens of thousands of people of all kinds. It’s going to be a ride!

Let's see how long we can do this...