Our Dream Being Realized

We've been in Homer for a few months now and are really loving it! The scenery in breathtaking -- the people are friendly and we have just settled into a new place out just past the store where Wendel works.

We both have great jobs -- NO STRESS! and since the house in Goergia hasn't sold yet and we have to work -- it might as well be fun! I work at a rental car place in the airport --yes, I'm still dealing with tourists, but just for the summer!! During the winter it will just be gov't and business people. Wendel has the fun job working at a log cabin general store, that has a post office, grocery, great deli, movie rental and liqour store. It's called Fritz Creek General Store and is about 8 miles out East End Road. For those of you who know about the End of the Road radio shows of Tom Bodett -- He's talking about Homer, Alaska. Going out East End Road is as far South as you can go in Alaska!! --period -- no more road!! The road ends about ten miles past the store.

Our new place is rustic -- It's a one room cabin, we bring in our water, don't have electricity, use propane for cooking and heat, and yes, we have an out house!! Wendel has rigged a gravity flow water system and the man who built the cabin already had a solar hot-water heater, so we have an outside shower. We plan on building a sauna with shower room, a greenhouse and a root cellar. This will allow us to try out alot of the things we wanted to experiement with before we bought land remote. Since we have to work, the cabin is on a road that is open year-round to town. Oh and Wendel and I are digging a new outhouse hole!!

I know you think we have lost it -- maybe so, maybe not -- but it makes us happy and there is no doubt that this is truly GOD's country and it is wonderful!! Keep you posted!

Happy Trails