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I knew Tennessee would be different from California, but only now am I beginning to think I am in an alternate reality.   When it comes to lifestyle, I love this place. Less than a mile from my house, there is a small parking lot with free access to the Harpeth River, so I could…

Note this post was originally written on October 28. Our realtor texted us to ask how our travel was going after we’d wired our money to the title company. Knowing she was from Kentucky, I told her we’d be going through her home state, forgetting what I was implicitly demanding by the rules of Southern…

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 stuff. In the afternoon, Peter and I went into “downtown” Gettysburg. We saw zombie Abraham…

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 Bay Area. Franklin, the place of our first and second choice houses, is ridiculously nice….

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 it and move in as soon as this Friday. For the last two days, we…

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 empty and bare as we left it, waiting to be filled with life again. I…

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 pub for a late lunch. At a Starbucks just short of San Antonio, I looked…

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 Las Cruces for a late lunch and a break at Starbucks. While Peter worked on…

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 me 50 cents to bet on the slots, but we couldn’t find any slot machines…

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 just a street name and old Vegas history. The SLS is either fashion forward or…