Settling in
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!



August 20th, 2007 at 7:15 am
I lived in NE Texas most of my childhood. I remember friends visiting from Ashfork, AZ saying that they felt like they were in a green cage. Glad you made it safely and very glad to see you back on-line.
August 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I’m so glad to hear you’ve arrived and are settling in well! Enjoy the green!
August 22nd, 2007 at 6:50 am
So glad to hear you made it!! NC is indeed a beautiful state, I got to visit there before my sil got transferred to Ft. Campbell(KY). Looking forward to hearing more about the trip and settling in.