Alabama bound

    • 1855 posts
    May 27, 2015 2:45 AM PDT
    Got our new home.  Closing in a few weeks.  Excited as hell.  No more snow.  Home here in Ohio is still for sale BUT, we just might hang onto it for awhile.  

    Here's the new place in Lillian, Alabama just 1/2 mile from the bridge to Florida across Perdido Bay.   Damn!!!!  The better half is excited.  There are hundreds of homes for sale there; mostly by the kids of retirees who've gone.  Some really great deals for anyone who wants to spend the winter in Alabama.


    • 1855 posts
    May 27, 2015 2:46 AM PDT
    BTW, it's an older pic. The grass is green now. LOL
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    May 27, 2015 6:58 AM PDT
    Nice!
  • May 27, 2015 2:23 PM PDT
    Looks like a great place Jimmy. Enjoy the start to a new life style.
    ND
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    May 27, 2015 4:20 PM PDT
    Sweet looking place, Congrats on the move.Ohio is nice,yet dealing w/snow gets tiring.
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    May 27, 2015 4:46 PM PDT
    Very nice!
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    May 27, 2015 10:00 PM PDT
    Awesome, and enjoy the warm!
    • 57 posts
    May 27, 2015 10:38 PM PDT
     
    Very nice Jimmy, can we expect a meet and greet this winter, HaHaHa Hope you enjoy the new home.
    • 314 posts
    May 27, 2015 11:15 PM PDT
    Looks nice
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    May 28, 2015 1:29 AM PDT
    Looks like a great place. Best wishes to you guys in your new home!!!
  • May 28, 2015 2:32 AM PDT
    Hey Jimmy looks like from Pigeon Forge Tennessee to Lillian Alabama is 544 miles and 8 hours. On the map looks like you are close to Pensacola Florida. That would be a nice drive to the coast and stop in to see ya.
    Be Safe
    Night Dragon
    • 1855 posts
    May 28, 2015 3:06 AM PDT
    NightDragon wrote...
    Hey Jimmy looks like from Pigeon Forge Tennessee to Lillian Alabama is 544 miles and 8 hours. On the map looks like you are close to Pensacola Florida. That would be a nice drive to the coast and stop in to see ya.
    Be Safe
    Night Dragon


    It is a nice ride.  A couple years ago we were over in Maggie Valley.  It was raining in Ohio so I called my friend in Lillian and told him we were riding down to do some laundry.    I can't say exactly how we got there but it was a back roads diagonal path and it was simply a great ride.   And yes, our new home is 1/2 mile from the bridge into Pensacola.  We'd be right of scenic highway 98 on Rte 99....turn right at the bridge.  I'll give you a headsup when we're there and you're welcome anytime.  


    Peace

  • May 31, 2015 3:57 AM PDT
    Congrats, Jimmy. Now start practicing your, "Roll Tide".
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    May 31, 2015 1:25 PM PDT
    Congrats say lots of houses for sale in the area might have to check in to it we looked last week while we were in Maggie valley oh yea by the way ROOOOLLLL TIDE GO BAMA
    • 1855 posts
    June 14, 2015 11:27 PM PDT
    More great news. Received a decent offer on our home here in Ohio. Whewwwwwwwww. No worries now.

    Peace
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    • 19007 posts
    June 14, 2015 11:50 PM PDT
    Awesome...!
  • June 18, 2015 5:54 AM PDT
    Jimmy that is great news. I bet that's quite a relief off your mind, now you can consecrate on the new life.
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    June 22, 2015 10:17 AM PDT
    Congrats on the new home and the sell of the old home. Enjoy your new life in the south, and please don't rub it in when I am stuck in a frozen tundra and you are out enjoying the wind… ; )
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    June 24, 2015 10:40 PM PDT
    Hey thats Good news,Glad its all working out for you both.
    • 1855 posts
    July 1, 2015 8:32 AM PDT
    Things are moving along. We close on our current home here on July 3. Close in Alabama on July 13. Got us a u-haul truck and gonna load up everything; mostly plastic storage tubs, motorcycles, tools, and just a bit of actual furniture. I told Gypsy we could get new furnishings if we sell this house. So she sold everything here. Did I stick my foot in my mouth or what? That's o.k.; just means less we have to move and I may "actually have a say" in how we furnish the place (yeah, right).

    Peace

    I can't begin to tell ya'll how excited I am. A couple of old farts starting over. It's almost like I'm escaping from a rat race. And to some degree we are; leaving all the Ohio BS behind.
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    • 19007 posts
    July 1, 2015 8:51 PM PDT
     Awesome it is...and have a say on the furn selection...
    • 58 posts
    July 28, 2015 2:04 PM PDT
    Congrats on the new place. Let's see....that would put you right at halfway from here to Daytona....