Flood inThe Florida Keys! Weather Report

October 17, 2011, brings another 24 hours of rain. Our RV is sinking in the quick sand, as Bob inspects our neighbor's new half-acre lake. We've got our rocking camp chairs set up under the Gumbo Limbo Trees, but there's no using them today. We've been watching NOAA radar images for days. Bahia Honda Key has been lit up in dark orange bands... Scary enough to stay home from church and skip the 7-mile bridge ride in a cross wind! The storm is just getting some real muscle when Bob says to grab our $1,200 Sony HDR-DX550 camera and wade out to take some footage. I don't know.... It's mighty wet out there....   Handycams don't like soakings.

Our host carts leave wakes?

 

Cars aren't supposed to leave a wake!

Here's a link to the NOAA Radar for The Keys: http://radar.weather.gov/radar_lite.php?rid=byx&product=NCR&loop=yes

Steps Toward Hosting

Sorry...one of the first things you'll need to do is sell your home....unless you can afford to maintain more than one home and have compelling reasons to keep yourself tied down. We took a big loss on the sale of our home (closing July 26, 2011) but we are ever so grateful to be out from under the bills and payments. Do you know what it's like to have NO mortgage, utility bills or house insurance and taxes to pay? Try it.

We put our house up for sale February 21, 2011, and headed south in our new RV. It was fringed with icicles and burdened with ice on the undercarriage until Las Vegas heat it it. We were on our way to Quartsite...the mecca of western snowbirds. We heard it touted by a bird who came to one of our many moving sales. There were supposed to be flea markets and rock displays stretching out into the giant BLM boondocking ranges. FREE camping!...along with panning for gold and finding all types of mineral treasures. As a former Geology Major, it sounded too good to be true.