What has happened since retirement?

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April 10th 2010

Published: April 12th 2010

Yes, the world is still round and we have not fallen off yet! We know it has been some time since our last blog entry but guess that just indicates that we have been quite busy since then. So, what has been filling our time? In February we took the planned trip to Miami to the boat show. It was a road trip as we wanted to see friends along the way, stop in Charleston to have our life-raft insp... Read Full Entry

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Bob & Janice Waller

s v Tsamaya

Like so many others we love to travel and we love to sail so cruising makes a lot of sense. Janice has retired from Cornell as a business manager and Bob has retired from South Seneca school district as the high school principal. It's time to sell the house, get rid of whatever doesn't fit on our 40 foot Caliber LRC named Tsamaya (this means Travel Well in Setswana) and set off to see the world. Our reasons for publishing this blog is twofold, first to keep in touch with our friends and family and secondly to share our experiences. If you would like to receive notification when we have added ... full info

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Crossing to the west coast of Florida

One of many views while going through the Everglades when driving to the west coast of Florida

Why big chairs?

We have been seeing over-sized chairs numerous times while traveling - not sure of the reason for them. We decided we might want to start making a record of them along our travels so here is the first t share with you

Irish or Tropical?

The adaptive nature of the good old Irish Pub shines through

Shrimp Boats

Saw lots of shrimp boats once we were on the west coast of Florida - this was near St. Petersburg

This proves it was cold

Even the seagulls found it so cold they had to tuck their head in and only leave 1 foot out at a time!

The Sunshine Skyway Bridge

What an impressive bridge over Tampa Bay - the great thing is how it appears to look so different from various angles

Another view across Tampa Bay

Quite an impressive view from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge

St Petersburg marina

As always our travels always take us to marinas. Never know where we might be so have to check them out!

Interesting building

While walking down the street we wondered what the interesting pink building was - we were surprised to find out it was actually a parking garage!

Palm tree lined streets

All the streets are impressive as they are lined with palm trees

Florida Snow

Not sure who wrote this but it seemed very appropriate with the temperatures in Florida

Janice's excited

We are finally to a place that will be great to use our folding bikes so Janice is excited - Fort DeSoto State Park

Cannons at Fort DeSoto

This is called a fort, however, it was more of a bunker. Cannons were actually built in Watervliet near where we grew up

Biking along the shore at Fort DeSoto

A beautiful day for biking along the waterfront in one of many Florida State Parks

Another deserted beach

It was great to be able to walk so many beaches without the crowds of summer - this is still at Fort DeSoto Park

Learning the new camera

As you can see we still don't have the hang of setting the new camera up for taking a remote photo - better luck next time

12th April 2010

Angelika Woelfing
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Hallo, Janice and Bob, I do not know, whether you ever got my short notice, because I have no experience with blogs. I'd like it much better to get a nice mail from you and to answer. I like very much to be retired. It's good to have so much time. You know that I have a very sweet grand daughter in Berlin, the daughter of Christiane and Philipp. She is now 16 month and likes very much to go into the kindergarden for the littleones. I myself could never think of taking my child in such age to a playschool. But, visiting in Berlin, I noticed how happy she is there. She starts talking now. I´m so happy to watch her devellopment. I did also some travelling. One week on the river Nil in Egypt. So super!! Now we are planning to spend 2 weeks in the south of France and in summer we want to get to know the noth east part of Germany. I'm just organizing this, therefore I tell you this. Im looking foreward to meeting you at the french or spanish coast some day. Lots of love from Angelika

26th April 2010

s v Tsamaya
Bob & Janice Waller

great to hear from you
Great to hear from you - just this weekend we were packing up our year's of photos to put into storage and came across many of the dive trips with you and Paul - it was great going down memory lane! Probably will be some time til we try the Rio Grande, but you can always come to meet us in the Caribbean - just keep in touch so we can arrange a connection point - it would be great fun (and also a chance to finally meet Vicki) - take care - thanks for touching base again!

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