Hello! It’s been a long time–y’all still remember me? I’ve missed you!

Well we made it all the way from the desert to beautiful North Carolina. It took four and a half days of driving and lots of Subway sandwiches and Carls Junior/Hardee’s burgers. Now we’re settling into our lovely little neighborhood in a great house and getting to know the area a bit.

The trip itself was actually pretty easy–at least as easy as a five day trip can be. The kids are incredible travelers, and even the Man behaved himself tolerably well. Actually, he did ALL the driving. Like, I didn’t drive. At all. Not even a mile. He get’s bored when he’s not driving, and he gets sick if he tries to read or do anything else. So I got a ton of knitting done. It was very exciting to watch the landscape change from bleak tan desert, where we started in California to the healthy and flourishing desert of Northern Arizona and New Mexico, to the cattle grazing lands of Texas and Oklahoma, the farms and crops of Arkansas and Tennessee (lots of corn and tobacco), and finally the forested, misty-rivered Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. Here in Jacksonville, a city of about 60,000, there are trees everywhere. Even in our backyard we have three large pine trees that rival any of the trees on my dad’s property.

There’s so much more to tell, and I’ll have to post several more times before I’m all caught up to today, but that’s all I have time for now. I promise to be back again soon!