Happy Cinco de Mayo!
Assuming the economy doesn’t crater, my house will go on the market in about two months right after July 4th. That gives me about 8 weeks to get things ready to go! Yikes!
The Bozeman real estate market is certainly not as crazy as it was the last two years, but there are still people moving here and it appears the inventory is still pretty low. Even with interest rates high, I am hoping that my place will sell for a reasonable price. Once the place sells, I will once again be homeless for a while. This is a bit like déjà vu when I left Los Angeles a little over five years ago.
I sold and moved out of my place in Los Angeles at the end of December 2017. I knew I was moving to Montana but did not yet have a house and I didn’t really want to move to Montana in the dead of winter, so I put everything in storage and moved to New York City where my daughter was going to school. I rented an Airbnb in the middle of Manhattan, not too far from NYU where my daughter went, and spent the next four and a half months exploring New York City and spending time with Jordan. I had a blast.
I attended different classes – welding, stone carving, juggling, etc!! I explored tons of museums and walked miles and miles around Manhattan. Jordan and I went out to Coney Island and had a lot of time to just hang out together. It was a lot of fun.
This time, when I sell my house, after completing my bicycle ride in the San Juan Islands in Washington, I will be moving into Barb’s house in the Phoenix area. It will be another 4- or 5-month interlude while our visas get processed, and I expect to spend the time exploring the area around Phoenix. We already have one trip planned up to Denver to visit some of Barb’s relatives and we plan to get over to SoCal to visit friends there.
And, of course, we have our house hunting trip to Portugal already booked. We will be gone virtually the entire month of November. We will spend the first part of the month in Portugal looking for a place to lease and then we will return to the US to spend Thanksgiving with my daughter and her mom in Boston. We will then hop down to New York for a few days since Barb has never been to New York City, so it seemed like a good opportunity.
It’s shaping up to be a very busy, interesting and exciting year! There will no doubt be bumps along the way but that kind of goes with the word ‘adventure’! I have no doubt our patience and sense of humor will get tested many times. But, what the hell! I am sure we won’t be bored!