This week we’re writing about the next vacation we’d love to take.
Apart from many breaks to seaside resorts in the British Isles, over the years I’ve been fortunate enough to visit various places abroad for holidays; Chania in Greece, Zakynthos in Zante, Alcudia and Costa Brava in Majorca, Binibeca in Minorca, Portinatx in Ibiza, New Orleans, The Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, and many of the Caribbean Islands including Grenada, Dominica and Jamaica. I’ve also sailed towards The Pitons in St Lucia on a catamaran whilst dancing to reggae music and watching the sun setting. All these continental holidays have had one thing in common – after a couple of weeks I always look forward to returning home!
I’m sixty this year, and have had enough of travelling. To be honest I’m a homebody really, and now prefer my lovely holiday home on the Isle of Wight, which we purchased earlier this year. Sam and I will be making many trips there this summer by ourselves and also with our grandchildren and/or extended family members. Here’s a photo of it which I took in April.
The beach is but a five minute walk away. It’s not too hot, I don’t need to take my trusty brown medicine to ward off alimentary canal dysfunction (which I’ve had to take to every country I’ve visited so far!), and I can sit on my decking and watch the world go by. I can cook the type of food I like to eat, and sleep on a memory foam mattress with a memory foam pillow whilst listening to the sea in the background. Bliss!
Below are the golden sands of Puckpool, which is about a 10 minute drive from our holiday home.
Call me boring, but I don’t care. The Isle of Wight rules as far as I’m concerned!
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Stevie Turner 
Valuable information. Lucky me I found your website unintentionally, and I’m surprised why this twist of fate did not took place earlier!
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Reblogged this on aurorawatcherak.
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That’s the point of our cabin we’re building on the edge of the Alaska wilderness. We can get to it with an hour’s drive and once it’s finished, it’ll have all the “stuff” that makes it comfortable. We’ll just have to deal with the cold (in the winter) or the bears (in the summer) for the half-mile trip from the road, but Brad’s got second-story decks planned so we can enjoy it without fear of being eaten.
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Sounds great. You must put some photos of it on WordPress!
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Well, right now it is a pile of lumber that we keep adding to. At some point, there’ll be enough to build the cabin, but it’s taking a lot of time just to gather the materials because we’re debt-adverse and there’s a 90-year-old 48″ water pipeline blocking vehicle access. But I think Brad’s working out a deal with a friend to borrow a 4-wheeler for part of the summer in exchange for hunting privileges and blueberry harvesting. That should speed up the transportation from the road to the building site.
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It all sound wonderful – not something that can be done here in the UK. No available land!
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Oddly enough, there isn’t much available land in Alaska (or really west of the Mississippi). The majority of it is held by the government at one level or another and, in Alaska, by the Native Corporations (which are First Nations tribes run like businesses). As a private citizen, only about 1% of Alaska’s land is available for ownership, so we jumped when the State of Alaska was offering remote, roadless sites. We had to jump through a lot of hoops and pay about $10,000 to buy 18 acres of raw land with a rusting water pipeline blocking road access. To buy an acre of private land nearer town, with road access and borough services would have cost $50,000.
It’s kind of weird, because it looks like there’s all this land, but really most of it is owned by the government and it almost never sells any of it.
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Something else I’ve learned today. Thanks Lela.
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I always enjoy coming home too. It’s familiar and relaxing, which is usually needed after exhausting myself site seeing.
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Exactly. My favorite part of any trip is coming home.
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Sounds like a slice of heaven Stevie. 🙂
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It is.
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It sounds perfectly delightful. Traveling can be hard work. There are some places I still want to go, but It’s gonna be hectic not restful. I look forward to the ones that are just seaside retreats.
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It’s fun to travel, but when you really find home it’s even better.
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I’ve found it!
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One can be over cautious when traveling. That month I spent in Vietnam, I had taken the required injections and even drank bottled water but could not refuse those beautiful salads and vegetables… the lovely freshly squeezed sugar cane juice which had been chilled on ice (a bit brown) but I emerged unscathed and if I were not so happy now, living in France, I would go back in a heartbeat.
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