Start: Leaving Tampa

Wednesday, April 28

Moving Day! Steve had moved most of our things to storage gradually over the last few weeks, so the movers were done in only 2 hours.

Mom and Dad Wilson treated us to a fabulous dinner at Bern's Steakhouse. Our first time dining there in over a year! Steve and I spent the night at the stylish Epicurean Hotel across the street.

Thursday, April 29

The closing was quick and painless. Thank you, Rick & Terry Realtors, for making our home sale so easy, and for the bottle of excellent champagne!

After a session with our estate planner, we impulsively decided to have lunch al fresco at Oak & Ola. Wonderful! Since we had dined at Edison Food + Drink Lab the previous Saturday, that's three of Tampa's best restaurants in less than a week. Not bad!

We're driving both cars on the first portion of our journey, so that we can leave the Prius with Amy in NC. Our departure was delayed a bit because we had to have the Prius's windshield replaced. It was, anticlimactically, the last thing we did in Tampa.

We caravaned up to Jacksonville without incident. We arrived pretty late at night, so dinner was a Mellow Mushroom pizza delivered to the hotel, with the champagne from our realtor. Definitely not as fancy as our earlier meals, but boy, was it delicious!