Headed West from Titusville

Our four-month stay in Titusville, Florida has ended as we head west tomorrow, August 1st. We’ve enjoyed our time here as we’ve been able to watch our new home being built at Latitude Margaritaville Daytona Beach.

The Minto new home construction sites have been super busy with activity, so we’ve only gone up on Sunday afternoons. We’ve really enjoyed seeing the progress each week and taking photos of our house and our neighbor’s homes to email to them.   

As many of you know, Julie and I have been full-time RVing in our motorhome since May 2013. we got rid of all of our furniture and lots of “stuff”. We only kept a few things (photo albums, some pots and pans, a few dishes, a Turkish carpet), but no furniture, in a small 5x10 storage unit, before we sold our house and moved into our motorhome.

So we’ve been busy the past four months buying furniture for our new home. We bought two-bedroom sets, a reclining love seat for the den, a small kitchen table and chairs, some chairs for the kitchen island, a sofa, end tables and entertainment center for the great room, three large area rugs, and a washer and dryer.

We found out early on that all of this furniture had to ordered and would take 2-4 months to come in due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news was that the furniture stores would keep our furniture at their warehouses until after we close on our house and ask to have it
delivered. 

We met with our builder yesterday afternoon to do a walk-through of the house. Afterwards, Julie and I went out for lunch at an outside bar & grill in Ponce Inlet. The bar & grill was on the water, adjacent to the national historic landmark Ponce Inlet Lighthouse, 175-feet tall and built in 1887.

Stay safe out there!

Steve & Julie Cornelius

Still Hanging Out in Titusville

We’re still hunkered down in Titusville, Florida, but we’ve been busy. On Tuesday, June 30^th, we witnessed the SpaceX launch of a GPS III satellite from Cape Canaveral. The clouds cleared enough so we could plainly see the rocket from our campsite at the RV park. SpaceX recovers their stage 1 boosters, to be used again, by having the booster land itself on a barge-like ship in the Atlantic. Very cool!

My sister Cathy drove across Florida from the Tampa area on Wednesday, July 1^st to spend July 4^th weekend with us. We also had my sister Marcia, brother-in-law Mike, and niece Stephanie come in on the same day in their motorhome for a week-long stay. They were here to meet with their Latitude Margaritaville salesman, their pool builder, and visit the home models to get ideas for their flooring, cabinets, countertops and other decorating for their new home. Their home will be on “Cheeseburger Drive” (upper left-site of map) while ours will be on “Sand Bar Lane” (upper right-side of map).

We spent July 4^th just hanging out and playing cards at our RV park clubhouse. It was relaxing.

Julie and I have been watching the progress the past three weeks, as Minto builds our new home. We take a short trip up I-95 to Daytona Beach on Sunday afternoons to check on the progress. All the construction workers are off on Sundays, so it’s the best day for us to go take a look.

The finished house should look like this in a few months (late-October or early-November).

Stay safe out there!

Steve & Julie Cornelius