Canadian Gal Lost on Guam - Southern Living

Mar. 1, 2009

Southern Living

Well, the move has begun. The Smith family is once again, packing up boxes and going on the road to a new (to us) home. Still on Guam of course. We have lived in our beach house for 3 years now and it's been a wonderful experience. But now it is time to move to something a little different. More room, more bathrooms (about time!) and typhoon proof. Always a plus when looking for a home on a tropical island. So we are moving down south to Inarjan. Southern living....ah.....

It brings to memory my other stint of living in the South. South of town that is. Powell River, BC. My link to Canada. For years Les and I lived somewhere South of PR. We started at Pebble Beach, a run down apartment building that usually housed drug dealers and single welfare moms. We only lived there for a few months while we tried to find a more suitable, but still affordable first home. Then we moved out to Black Point where we lived in a quaint two bedroom cabin on several acres of land. Love that home. Had our first goat - Ozzie. She hated me. My eldest son was born in that house .. well, in the hospital .. but we brought him home to that house. Then we moved even further south and had a disastrous 2 months stay at Stillwater. One of the worst winters that year. The very quaint A-Frame cabin we moved into would have made a wonderful summer cottage. But in the face of a cold snowy winter, it wasn't the best. We couldn't even get our car up the steep driveway. I was attending college so couldn't afford to miss classes so we spent most of those two months crashing at friends' places in town. Fun with a 9 month old baby!

We spent a few years in town but then the draw of the south called again and we ended up living in an old shingle mill office that we converted into a home down in Lang Bay. The house was old and draughty and we froze that winter too. But we did live near the beach and the boys had a great summer playing at Lang Bay Park. That was where we officially began homeschooling, back in 1991. From the old shingle mill we moved a little closer to town at Kelly Creek, and lived in a converted garage. Are you sensing a pattern here? Either quaint or living in converted buildings?

After our 3 child was born we moved yet again to what I had hoped would be my last move for a long time. A beautiful two story wood home on 2 acres of land at Kelly Creek. On Serendipity Road. I loved that name! It was a great house. Lots of room for a family with two boys. Creek next to the property where salmon would spawn and we often saw eagles swoop down to feast on the dying fish. Bears in the back yard. Cows too sometimes.

Never did I expect to only have 9 months in that southern country living bliss. And then my life was changed. And Guam became our new home.

So far on Guam we have moved, lets see, from grampas to the apartment......then to the trailer....moved to Yona (south) just before the trailer was blown away by Super Typhoon Pongsongwa....from Yona to the beach house...and now we head south once more to Inarjan.

Tonight we took the scenic route to Inarjan. Next time I'll bring my camera and time it at sunset. We drove through Piti to Santa Rita and took Cross Island Road to Talafofo. Through Talafofo to Inarajan. Total of 22 miles. Only 18 to take the Yona route. 32 miles if you go via Agat. You can guess which way I'll be going most of the time.

I hope to get a lot of meditating on the Lord accomplished on the drives.

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