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