An old house on small acreage in Tasmania with a view of the mountains and perhaps the D'Entrecasteau Channel. Mild summers, cooler winters and the purest air in the world to breathe.![]()
An old house on small acreage in Tasmania with a view of the mountains and perhaps the D'Entrecasteau Channel. Mild summers, cooler winters and the purest air in the world to breathe.![]()
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Amelia Earhart
2005 Trek 5000 road/Avocet 02 40W
2006 Colnago C50 road/SSM Atola
2005 SC Juliana SL mtb/WTB Laser V
I want - a 2200-2500 hundred sq ft house on the beach (perhaps Florida) with lots of glass windows (kinda like the house in the movie Sleeping with the Enemy) - and then I would want a cabin to vacation in on Sebec Lake in Maine..... (where I married my man).............
All with tons of land for my doggies to frolic of course............
Even though it needs a new roof...
Karen, dying for Spring and blooming azaleas...
Someplace green, with a creek or river. Nothing too big, a cottage for me and Chloe, with a room for the occasional guest. Room for a small vege garden, oh, and a workshop so I can start making jewelry again. Near lots of good cycling roads/trails.
Jennifer
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
-Mahatma Gandhi
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
-Aristotle
My dream is to live with my sweetie on Cape Cod in the spring, summer, and fall, then to Hawaii for the winter. If I can't have that, then I'll live anywhere, as long as we are together.
Karen, what a darling house! Just the cottage-y style I love.![]()
I absolutely love our house in the woods, too, especially the secluded setting (11 acres), many birds, huge hardwood trees, deer, and trails all around us....but I have wanderlust as well. I'm kinda like Lisa says she used to be. Whatever lifestyle/setting I don't have, I crave. I live in a rural area now, so I crave city life, where I could walk everywhere and have coffee or a glass of wine in a quaint cafe along the street, or pop into a bookstore. I live in the woods, so I crave the beach, the islands, water all around me, blues instead of browns and greens. I'm content and happy where I am most of the time, but I don't want to die having lived in North Carolina for all of my days.
There's just too much more to see and experience, and a vacation isn't always enough time to really experience a place.
Emily
Emily
2011 Jamis Dakar XC "Toto" - Selle Italia Ldy Gel Flow
2007 Trek Pilot 5.0 WSD "Gloria" - Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow
2004 Bike Friday Petite Pocket Crusoe - Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow
Thanks! It's the house I used to draw when I was a little girl, lace curtains and everything. It was a long-suppressed urge to own an old dame, that I didn't know I had until I saw this one. It looks really nice in the spring, with lots of old roses planted by former owners, and honeysuckle and peonies and mums. Lots of mums. :O The garden needs a lot of work.
Yes, I've thought about what I'd do if it were only me. Would I live on the beach, in the city, or in some funky little area of some midsized place with lots of interesting people?
I've decided it's just too expensive to live in those trendy places, so I'll live where it's cheap and then I'll have the money to VISIT all those places as much as I want! That way I'd never get tired of one place, and can experience variety. I get a thrill just *thinking* about traveling.
Karen