Hello World!

This is the beginning of our blog. We are catastrophe insurance adjusters from Omaha, Nebraska, and travel around the U.S. helping people recover after a major disaster. Last August (2004) we arrived in Orlando, FL, to "work" Hurricane Charley which came ashore in the Gulf near Punta Gorda on August 13. Little did we know when we arrived that we would greet Hurricane Frances about three weeks later (it came ashore on the ocean side of Florida near Fort St. Lucie on Sept. 5) and then Hurricane Jeanne about three weeks later (this one came in about where Frances did, on Sept. 25).

We were in the Orlando area until the end of November when we were asked to go to the Florida Panhandle to "work" Hurricane Ivan which came ashore at Gulf Shores, AL, on September 16, 2004 (between Frances and Jeanne).

We arrived in Mobile, AL, the first of December and have been working claims in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. Looks like we will be finished up soon, probably the middle of April. Who would have thunk that FOUR hurricanes would hit Florida in a span of six weeks??

But this blog is more about our travels than it is about claims adjusting. We have been to so many places around this great country of ours and have had so many great experiences and found so many wonderful places that we want to share with anyone who cares. Although this is our first post, as we build this blog with reports of our previous adventures we will post them chronologically to maintain some semblance of order. So you will find many articles and photos appearing on dates BEFORE this first post. Just check the index on the left for items in which you might be interested. An exception: occasionally we sent family members what we called "Florida Updates" to let them know where we were and what we were doing. In order to keep these updates together we have inserted them above this post, showing the dates they were actually written and sent.

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