Recap

First, the drive: me, Kate, pickup truck, Uhaul trailer, everything we own. Not fast up the mountains! I kind of forgot about the Sierra Nevadas. They're hella steep. ( I never won at Oregon Trail either. ) So we're basically crawling for all of Friday, and go 300 miles. We stop for dinner and do the math and realize that with 2000 miles to go, we're looking at another 9 days of this at this rate. So we're out Saturday morning well before dawn, pedal on the floormat, 5 minute gas stops, chugging along at 65mph. We did 2000 miles in two days. It was epic. Also, we live in a truly beautiful country.

Second: the apartment. We'd never seen the place - no pictures, nothing. It's a long story, but here we are, we show up, and it's fantastic. Twice the size of our old (rather large) place, a proper (big!) office for me, in a beautifully walkable hood and three blocks from a lakefront park. Also, it looked like the guy we subleted from left in a hurry. Like a big screaming scrape up the hardwood hurry. And he's got this steal of a place, and other than a craigslist post (no pics) didn't do much to get someone moved in, even though he was paying double rent. But whatever -- he's off the lease, we're on, and that's that. But I wondered about the story. So we meet our neighbor, and he's like: "Yeah, what's up with the people that lived there?" We have no idea. "Oh, I just wondered because there was a CPD detective here talking to them, then they moved out that night." Don't want to know! Also, I have no idea how to furnish our giant living room. I'm thinking Bocce court.

Pics to come tommorrow.