Less than 48 hours

Last minute details!
Coin, content, and sign.

so close-- so close

We hope and pray.

So close to our home with heat.

FIFTY

In August 2015,  we collected all fifty states.

That means we had spent time in all the states.

We immediately started over with Idaho, Oregon, California
and Washington . Soon after  MN, NE, Maine of course.

As  of July 2016 we added Rhode Island and Massachusetts!

We have new rules.
 We must stay one night and eat one meal in each state.
Sixteen down and thirty four to go not bad in ten months.

The FEMA story.

In our local area we had Hurricane Bob in August 1991.  That washed out a culvert or two with some wind and nine inches of rain.  Five years later,  October 1996, the region had a 500 year storm with 17 inches of rain in thirty hours.  Our house sat high and dry.  A small brook twelve feet below our basement foundation does rise a bit.  FEMA all of a sudden takes a broad brush and puts our house on one of their flood plane maps.  For a buyer of our house with a  mortgage the lender will not lend until we prove otherwise. 

The special detailed survey (for a price) was accepted seven weeks down the road.  We then were able to close and sell our home in early September. THE END.

First then second then third delay or condition to meet!

A condition before closing was over shadowed by a seven week FEMA flood zone stall.

That did clear so stress plummeted.  A good thing so then with the closing things really looked up.

Now we are in a position to buy and the last hurdle is for the contractor to actually do the work.