We’re about 80% or so unpacked now, which feels a hell of a lot better than being totally hemmed in by boxes did. Now we need to hang our chandelier in the dining room, buy a new couch for the …

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Please excuse the blog silence while we dig out from under all these moving boxes. Back soon, I promise.

We’ve been here in Portland for just five days, and already specifics of our road trip—where we were and when, etc—are starting to get hazy. We were on the road for two weeks, but it seems much longer. We shed …

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…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 …

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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 …

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Texarkana, TX to Austin, TX Day five brought us to Billy’s brother’s 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 …

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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 …

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Memphis, TN to Texarkana, TX Arkansas started out with the best peaches we’d 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 …

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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 …

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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 way—Skyline Drive along the Appalachian Trail. Slow going—30 to 40 mph—but it was absolutely …

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