Good-bye City Life

As they said on “Green Acres”, “good-bye city life”, “give me some of that country air”.

I will be moving out to the suburbs on Friday afternoon. It is my day off, so it is a good time to get settled into my new crib. I have added some new photos of the new place.

The hotel was clean and comfortable and I was just getting the restaurant staff broken in to know what I wanted to order as soon as I walked into the cafe. I have been spoiled. Now I will have to start cooking for myself. Either that or I need to find some good restaurants close to the apartment and start breaking them in.

I was leery about going to an apartment. I heard they were all expensive and I did not know what they would be like inside. After seeing the buildings around the hotel project, they are not in very good shape. Rumor has it that shortly after the hotel is completed, the entire surrounding area of the hotel is going to be redeveloped. There is even talk of shutting down two lanes of the street in front of the hotel, in order to make a new beach boardwalk. We will have to wait and see about all of that.

Benghazi is not a very large city in land area. Maybe close to one million people, but you can get to the far reaches of the city by car within 15 to 20 minutes. From the new map that I downloaded you will see that the city has a number of highway loops to help get traffic into the downtown area. 

My new apartment is not quite at the outer most edge. The buildings are newer and kept up nicer. I was very lucky to find such a great place. It is a two bedroom unit on the second floor of one large villa. The landlord lives downstairs and another family lives in the other second floor apartment. With two bedrooms I will have room for any of my followers that are planning to visit Libya for their vacations. I have a living room, dining room, family room and huge bathroom. The kitchen is large enough to have a small dinette table. The TV has a satellite dish, so maybe I will be able to get ESPN....and see the Colts. I have to carry three keys around to get into the apartment. One for the main gate that opens to a marble courtyard, then another for the main door to the building and then the last key for my own apartment. I think the new place will get the Carol (Seal of Approval) when she comes to visit later in the school year.

My landlord and his wife both speak English. They lived in Florida for about five years.

They said that another American couple live across the street, so I after I get settled in, I will have to bake some cookies (yeah, right) and take them over to introduce myself.

I will try to do a better job at updating my blog. Some of my followers recently commented on my lack of updated material. Thanks for your support and I will keep you as current as I can. BTW....I have my own wifi system. It seems to work great so I should be able to MagicJack or Skype anytime I want.

Talk to you soon...........