My New Home.... For a Month Anyway!

Started out in a hotel room with a kitchenette....

That wasn't gonna work so went on Craigslist and looked for a furnished 2 bedroom apartment or home for a 1 month rental....

And ended up with a beautiful 2 bedroom casita!

It's not a 5 bedroom 2-1/2 bath 2800 ft2 house but it is representative of the simplifying and downsizing of life that I am headed towards....

A bowl of carde asada with the wife....

So..... here I am in beautiful Santa Fe New Mexico in a nice 2 bedroom casita.

Let's see how it goes.... it's kinda scary.... it's different.... it's....

Discovery.

The End of the Beginning - Part 5

Last Step.... Put the Beast to Bed....

The Horse goes in a Stall....

Last night in Texas and dinner at La Casona in Angleton with my Sister and family....

And a One Way to Santa Fe....

And it is a Cold Motor Scooter in Santa Fe!

Drive from Albuquerque to Santa Fe..... the mountains in the distance are just north of Santa Fe.

First step.... Find a place to work out!

Anytime Fitness will do....

It ain't Family Fitness but it will do.

It even has a CrossFit area.

The mountains to the north of Santa Fe!

You know it's cold when the icicles stay during the day!

The Santa Fe Plaza at sunset...

Bought this coat in Santa Fe 15 years ago.....

Glad I brought it!

Beginning of the End - Part 4

One of my last workouts at CrossFitWMD.....

Gonna miss Will Black, Tony Guined and the rest of the gang....

CrossFit WMD changed the way I look at working out forever!

But the show must go on....

Everything in my life goes in  the back of a UHaul Truck!

Which my daughter, her boyfriend and me had to load in a rain....

That's all right....we'll figure it out.... how bout a tarp from the front eave to the back of the truck?

My life in a 10 x 15 storage room....

An empty house where I spent the last 11 years of my life....

Last night in the house with a camp chair and a TV tray...

Sleeping on the floor cause we already loaded the bed....

Went to Beaumont to visit my dad.

And did Paleo in his camp trailer.

Good bye Family Fitness!

Good Bye Golden Girl....May God bless you with the Wisdom, Patience and Good Judgment I could not give you.

The new HEB where my old  duplex used to be.

That far big trunked oak tree was in my front yard.

The Beginning of the End - Part 4

One of my last workouts at CrossFit WMD....

Loading my life into the back of a UHaul truck....

In the Rain....

Rigged a tarp from the front eave of the house to the back of the truck...

And with the help of my daughter and her boyfriend, My Old Life went into a 10 x 15 storage room.

The last day in the house was a busy one getting all the remaining items gathered together....

An empty home.... 

With just a camp chair and a TV tray....

Slept on the floor the last night....

And Voila..... it ain't pretty but it all fit.

I weeded out a lot of stuff but still kept too much....

Sentiment over Logic....

Went to my Dad's house for 4 days before Christmas and did the Paleo thing on a 2 burner hot plate.

The guy on the right is 87 and still going strong....

The guy on the left is 52 and fading fast...

And then at my sister's house for Butter Baked Chicken and roasted brussel sprouts.

And a good bye to my long time workout place - Family Fitness.