Yeah, I finally started the blog!

Welcome friends!

This is our site to share our adventure of our move to St Croix, USVI, the building of our dome home, employment and whatever's next in our future.  Denise and I are normally not big social media users of Facebook, Twitter or whatever's hot right now so we figured a site you can visit when you want, without annoying feeds would be a better option.  I'll try to keep the updates short but wanted to catch everybody up on this post.  Denise did start her TaubertDomes Instagram page if you'd prefer that platform. 

It's been a crazy couple of weeks since Denise and I left our jobs of 19 1/2 years.  Our last day of work was March 16th.  After returning from the islands at the first of the year and announcing our intent to move, we've been working day and night to plan the house, property and pack our current home into the 20' shipping container in the driveway.  We went to St Croix at the end of January to find and purchase our new property; closing should be the week of  4/9/18.  Being off work has allowed us to focus on specific tasks from start to "mostly finished".  This is a big difference than working 10 hours a day then trying to tackle all the tasks that come with the move. 

For all our CenturyLink friends, thank you for your emails and your support.  We'd also like to thank all our existing and new friends we've met along the way!  You've all really helped us deal with the stress of uprooting and moving to a far away place.  Having an awesome wife who is also my best friend really helps too.  24/7 together through this adventure and we're happy, confident and excited about the future.  Warm weather here we come!

Subaru Legacy #1 was loaded on the little trailer 4/6, headed for the big car carrier and off to Florida.  From there Blue Ocean Transport will take it to St Croix.  We were a little disappointed that our Yakima Skybox 16 was not able to go to the islands.  It has traveled the country with us during our road trips and would have been useful on the island.  The total height was 6' 4" and we had 1" to spare on the ship, however the mainland transport carrier was going to charge us a truck rate of over $400 because of the height was equal to a Suburban.  We tried a few options but ultimately we sold the cargo box. 

You can see the corner of the container in the picture from our bedroom window.  It's 99.5% full but it's been raining so we've been putting off the last bit of stuff to cram in.  I've spent the past few months keeping the doors closed during rainy days to minimize moisture and reduce mold and rust.  The problem is it rains most of the winter in the NW so we've been staging things in the garage until a dry time.  It's a new container and the door seals are extremely good so I'm hoping we have dry goods upon arrival. 

Our house is now empty except for the last items for the container and stuff we're donating when we leave. This includes the few plates, forks, knives and basic cooking utensils needed to survive.  We're using up food in the freezer and using our neighbors card table and a few chairs as a kitchen area.  We're down to living out of our suit cases until our one way trip to St Croix on April 25th. 

I hope to have the container on its way next week.  The 2016 Legacy will be shipped the day before we leave. 

That's all for now. 

Kevin & Denise