Another Month in Titusville

It’s hard to believe that another month has gone by as we hunker down in Titusville, Florida. We haven’t done much. With COVID-19, we haven’t gone out to eat at any restaurants. However, we do occasionally pick up a “to go” order.

We spent the past month looking for a golf cart. No, we don’t play golf. We need a golf cart to get around Latitude Margaritaville after we move in this November. We wanted a golf cart that seated four people and specifically, a cart with the rear seat facing forward. Most carts have the rear seat facing backwards and could make those passengers dizzy riding backwards.

We finally narrowed our search down to an Icon-made cart. Icon is a new electrical vehicle manufacturer, based in Tampa. Their carts are fully-loaded with features like 10-inch aluminum wheels, lights, turn signals, horn, digital gauges, and come standard with a 48-volt Toyota 4KW AC motor for greater torque and distance. We specifically were looking at the Icon, model i40F golf cart.

We went to Icon dealers in Melbourne, Daytona Beach, and Kissimmee, Florida. We wanted to buy from the Icon dealer right outside the Latitude Margaritaville gate, but their price was quite a bit more than other dealers we’d been working with. We bought our Icon i40F, in Caribbean Blue, this past Tuesday in Kissimmee and it was delivered this past Friday. 

On June 10^th, we had our “Meet Your Builder” meeting with our construction superintendent Peter, for our new home at Latitude Margaritaville. Since then, they have graded our lot, “pinned” the location of the house, trenched to place the sewer lines, and set the forms in place. If the weather is good, they plan to pour concrete for our “slab” this coming week. Florida gets lots of late-afternoon thunderstorms during the summer.

We have watched a couple of rocket launches from Kennedy Space Center and from Cape Canaveral this past month. We thought the most spectacular launch was the June 13^th launch of a SpaceX rocket at 5:30AM from Cape Canaveral. It sent up a new batch of 58 Starlink internet satellites, along with three small Earth-observation satellites.  

Julie and I have decided to finally sell our boat. Our boat was a 2004 Chaparral 220Ssi bowrider that I got for my 55^th birthday in September 2003. The past several years we have only been using it for two-weeks in September each year at Lake Powell. Rather than tow it all the way from Page, AZ to Daytona Beach to sell it in Florida, we decided to try and sell it this summer. The past 5-years we have stored the boat in Big Water, Utah, just outside of Page, AZ.  We thought now would be a good time to sell the boat with Lake Powell reopening from COVID-19 restrictions and with July 4^th coming up.

This past Wednesday I put a free classified ad on a local Salt Lake City TV station web site. I also paid for an ad on the Boat Trader web site. In less than an hour I got an “very interested” lead and had six more leads in just 24-hours. My first lead, a guy from the Salt Lake City area drove 5-hours down to Big Water Wednesday night to look at the boat on Thursday morning and take it for a test drive. He bought our boat and we’re happy it went to a good family.

We already miss our Chaparral and all the great memories we have out on many lakes. We’ll really miss our boat in September when we go to Lake Powell and have to rent a boat to go out onto the lake.      

Happy Father's Day and stay safe out there!

Steve & Julie Cornelius