In 2014, we made our first winter trip to Florida and spent seven weeks there.  The next year, we upped this to 11 weeks.  By this time we decided that we would officially become "snow-birds" and buy our own place but we still weren't certain exactly what area we wanted to buy in.  Also, at that point, although we had moved full-time to Pillar Point, we still owned our long-time Edwards home and wanted that sold before we invested in another place.  Our house in Edwards was sold in October 2015, so we knew we would, at least casually, be looking on our next trip south.

On December 28, 2015, we left northern New York, bound for Zephyrhills.  We were renting that winter from good friends who owned a place in Tippecanoe Village, on the south side of this city.  We immediately got a good feeling about this community and after looking at a number of homes in three different 55+ communities, decided that we would really like to locate here, if the right property came along.  After looking at a half-dozen places here, that did happen.

We closed on March 8 and moved in the next morning.  The next few days were spent cleaning, settling in and changing a few small things.  We have since done some extensive improvements on the place. 

Our first full season there, we painted through the house and made some small improvements.  Since then, we have done some fairly extensive renovations.

In 2017, we added new shed to the back to accomodate our golf cart.  As part of that, we finished the Florida and laundry rooms to make them more usable and appealing.  Over the next couple of years, we installed a new air conditioning/ heating unit, including new duct work and vapor barrier.  We installed 21 insulated windows and a new entrance door on the Florida room in 2023.  A new kitchen came along in early 2025 and when we returned that fall, we added matching cabinets in the entrance area into the kitchen and down a hallway to create an office area.