Buried under boxes
Please excuse the blog silence while we dig out from under all these moving boxes. Back soon, I promise.
Month: September 2007
We’re here!
…but we won’t have internet at home until Thursday and settling into a new city with a baby means I can’t really lounge around a cafe soaking up the free wifi. So here I am stealing five minutes in a …
Stealth Knitting Revealed!
So now you know what I’d been keeping from you with all that stealth knitting a few months back. I hope you like it! It was absolute hell not telling you about it. Or telling you about the two photo …
Day 5: 322 miles
Texarkana, TX to Austin, TX Day five brought us to Billys brothers house in Austin. The drive from Texarkana to Austin was marked by at least 20 Monarch butterflies crashing into the windshield. Kind of traumatic, driving along and hitting …
(by the way)
If you’re thinking of moving to or within Portland, I have to say…the realtor we worked with is truly fantastic. He spent so much time over the past six or so months, helping us with the house search. Went above …
Day 4: 316 miles
Memphis, TN to Texarkana, TX Arkansas started out with the best peaches wed ever eaten, bought at a road-side stand, followed by miles and miles of flat farmland. The grass got drier and scrubby and the dirt turned to red …
Day Three: 487 miles
Kingsport to Memphis, TN First off, some business from the Day Two post. Here’s the deal re: the tattoo on my leg. And yes, I slipped up a bit and posted Thumper’s real name. I was tired. Very tired. And …
Day Two: 300 miles
New Market, VA to Kingsport, TN Day two was more traveling than the mileage reflects. We took the scenic route for a good part of the waySkyline Drive along the Appalachian Trail. Slow going30 to 40 mphbut it was absolutely …
Dispatches from the road: Day One, 297 miles
Well, we did it. We closed on the Brooklyn house on Thursday and on the new house in Portland on Friday. We were all set to hit the road on Saturday, but then Friday night my SIL (my brothers wife), …