Monthly Archive: October 2016

We arrived in Gettysburg Pennsylvania near midnight, but we have a free and very comfortable place to stay with Peter’s parents for the next few days. In the morning, we asked the sellers of the house we like to fix…
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After putting in our earnest money and taking a drive by the house we’d just bought, we headed to Murfreesboro, a town about 30 minutes away to check in to our Airbnb. The lifestyle here is indeed different from the…
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On Friday morning, we found out that our offer on a 3200 square foot house on an acre of land in Franklin had been accepted. We have an inspection on Sunday, and if that goes well, we could pay for…
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It started to sink in that soon we’ll be in Tennessee, hoping that one of the houses we’ll be seeing soon will suit us and be in a friendly neighborhood. I awoke from a dream about our former house, still…
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I really really wanted to like San Antonio. It is one of the hot places Californians are moving to, and second hand reports are positive. We were looking forward to strolling down the River Walk and stopping in at a…
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The miles of road are blurring, as we’ve been driving east for a long time. Sometime before noon we crossed the Continental Divide. Around 2 pm Mountain Time we had run out of all sodas and we pulled in to…
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We dallied out of the SLS, but I just realized to my horror that I left my entire make up kit behind. Eventually some phone calls located it and Chris mailed it to Peter’s parents. My cousin Tammy had given…
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We got in to Las Vegas at 1:30 am and checked into the SLS Casino Hotel. Those who have lived in Las Vegas for a while would remember that it on the site of the old Sahara, which is now…
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After a good night’s rest and breakfast at Tammy’s we headed north to Los Angeles. Peter had made an appointment to see the studio of internet personality Bill Whittle, but it was like a scavenger hunt, in that we could…
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