It seems like I’ve been on the cusp of heading north again for a very long time now. One box at a time, packed in one house and unloaded and put away at the other. Probably not the most efficient way to do things but it has cut down on the number of boxes I’ve needed. It has seemed endless, but we are nearly ready to go, and it’s only six months since last time. It had been two years before that and I was so homesick. It was a wonderful visit, which explains why I turned my life upside down and decided to become a snowbird, with the mother of all road trips ahead of me.
My only complaint about that last trip was my frustration with the radio. I’ve never bought music in any form, the radio was fine with me. But on that trip I had a hard time finding a radio station, and I’d lose the station in no time flat. And Ozzie isn’t much of a conversationalist so it was annoying. Even after I got home it seemed like the stations I listen to play a little music (always the same play list) between obnoxious car commercials (“It’s HUGE”), and competing clinics that treat erectile disfunction. But frustration with the radio is a thing of the past for me because I now have Serius XM radio, something I’d never been interested in before. And it came complete with a nice comfy car, with lots of room for Ozzie and me, plus all the stuff we would like to tote with us. Like cameras and dog toys. I’m not great at traveling light, and Ozzie, well, he IS the elephant in the room, so more room for him. I knew what car I wanted, but I was ‘just looking’ when I went into the dealership to see what they had. Not the first dealership I’d been in to either, but somehow they shoo’d me out the door, sending me home with the new car and called it an ‘extended test drive’. “Drive the car”, they said, “It’ll help you move,” they said. It proved to be a good strategy because yes, I went back and bought the car. One step closer…
A Snowbird's Life Through the Lens 