{"id":400,"date":"2018-07-03T03:32:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T03:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2018-07-03T03:32:18","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T03:32:18","slug":"new-beginnings-and-beauty-all-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/03\/new-beginnings-and-beauty-all-around\/","title":{"rendered":"New Beginnings and Beauty All Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, Hello, Hello!\u00a0 Yes, we are “on the road” again!\u00a0 We left Columbus June 16 and our first stop has been Minnesota.\u00a0 It was hard to say goodbye again to family and friends, and we appreciate all the well wishes from you all!<\/p>\n

It didn’t take us too long to remember how to do this “RV thing” again.\u00a0 It probably took us longer to hook up and prepare for take-off than normal since we were a little rusty, but I think we’re back in the groove now.\u00a0 We do love our RV and life on the road.\u00a0 It makes us happy!\u00a0 Gerry did not miss a beat and has adapted to his back seat palace just fine.\u00a0 Really, the back “seat” of our truck converts to a very spacious doggy palace that has been outfitted with multiple doggy pillows, toys, food and water bowls and things to chew on.\u00a0 He even has a doggy puzzle that he uses his nose to find treats in compartments to fight any boredom.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

One reason we came to Minnesota was to visit with Guy and help him launch a new business.\u00a0 I’m happy to report (for so many reasons!) that he has formed a new business, Aspire Sober Living.\u00a0 We have formed a partnership with him and\u00a0 have purchased a house that will be a sober living home.\u00a0 He has been a live-in manager of a sober house for over a year now, and wants to own and operate his own.\u00a0 Sober homes are very common here in the Twin Cities, they are independently owned businesses that provide a sober living environment for residents in recovery.\u00a0 A safe and supportive environment to live in, usually after leaving a rehab treatment facility, with like-minded persons to help each other.<\/p>\n

Guy has put a lot of work and thought into making this happen.\u00a0 And we found out the housing market in the Twin Cities is incredibly competitive!\u00a0 Houses are flying off the shelves around here!\u00a0 But the stars aligned and we found the perfect house and won in spite of 6 other bidders on the same house.\u00a0 The house had been a “catagory 2” house which means it was condemed for habitation.\u00a0 The sellers did a total rehab on the house as a flip.\u00a0 It has 6 bedrooms and 3 baths and will house 7 residents plus Guy.\u00a0 Guy said, “How fitting…a house that was condemed, rehabed, and now will provide a home to people in recovery, rebuilding their lives.”\u00a0 Really.<\/p>\n

So we have been super busy looking at houses, going through the offer, cross your fingers and wait to hear if you won the bid, inspection, etc, etc, etc process for the last several days.\u00a0 We’ve also been completing the zoning applications, drawings and other requirements for the sober housing certification.\u00a0 All has gone smoothly and is on track for a fall opening.<\/p>\n

In the meanwhile, we have also been fortunate to have met and getting to know Guy’s girlfriend, Katelyn. What a delight she is, beautiful and smart and as warm and friendly as can be.<\/p>\n

We’ve been staying at an RV park a little over an hour outside the cities – there are no RV parks in or very near the cities.\u00a0 In spite of the driving, which has been significant, we have loved staying here.\u00a0 It is right along the freeway, but once you get down the drive way you enter a beautiful 40 acre oasis with a lake, lots of trees, very well spaced RV sites and very nice owners.\u00a0 They have paths mowed all around the lake that we have enjoyed strolling and Gerry has loved running on.\u00a0 Tons of birds right out our window every day.<\/p>\n

We leave tomorrow morning for the Denver area.\u00a0 We will spend a few days staying near Samantha and visiting with her.\u00a0 She moved there the end of May, after college graduation.\u00a0 More on that later when I give you an update on that visit!<\/p>\n

New beginnings indeed!\u00a0 And beauty really is all around us, sometimes in the most unexpected places.<\/p>\n

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Guy & Katelyn in front of the new house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aspire Sober Living will open here in the fall!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Gerry loves running on the paths around the lake!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hello, Hello, Hello!\u00a0 Yes, we are “on the road” again!\u00a0 We left Columbus June 16 and our first stop has been Minnesota.\u00a0 It was hard to say goodbye again to family and friends, and we appreciate all the well wishes from you all! It didn’t take us too long to remember how to do this … Continue reading New Beginnings and Beauty All Around<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeyreeb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}