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It takes a lot of planning and logistics to leave your primary residence for two or three months and live elsewhere – even if the elsewhere offers warm breezes and sunlit skies.   It was a big decision to make and here’s the dilemma that we faced.

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Snow Birds –  #187

This year, we wintered in Florida.  We left our permanent residence behind and rented someone else’s home for the two coldest months of the year. The sun shown daily and the dress of the day was shirtsleeves.  It was wonderful.

I’m still trying to come to terms with becoming part of the great exodus southward.  They call us snow birds. 

Actually, it’s the natural things to do, just as the birds do.  It makes sense to remove your body from the environment  where it will shiver and ache as the cold wind blows.

And yet I felt that I had abandoned my place in life by taking the easy way out.  Perhaps I would have been made stronger or smarter or more resilient if I stayed in my snow-swept home. 

Would Valentine’s Day have been more romantic up here?  Would the St. Patrick’s Day beer have been greener? 

To my neighbors and friend back here, I apologize for not donning my boots and wool-lined gloves, For never scrapping ice from my windshield.

For not being able to join in the myriad of complaints about the road conditions and the salting crews and the electrical lines down.

But you know what?  Next year . . . I’m heading south again!

P.S.   

We’ve wintered in St Augustine, Tampa and The Villages.  Looks like we’ll experience Sarasota next.  What is your favorite Florida winter get away site?

[Show #187]