this weekend my neighbor and i are going snow camping in the cascade mountains. tomorrow afternoon i will be running down to rei to pick up my rented backcountry/touring skis and early saturday morning the two of us will pile our gear in the car to make the 3 1/2 hour drive. our [...]
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snow camping
14Feb08our new home
21Oct07we are finally settled in(for the most part) to our new apartment. over the past few days of travel, back and forth from furniture stores, and just learning the city and public transit, we have really been enjoying our new home. many things are unfamiliar still but more and more we are getting [...]
we made it!
19Oct07we are here in portland, safe and sound.
stay tuned for pictures, updates, and news on our new life.
goodmorning nebraska
17Oct07for those who didn’t know, nebraska is flat. that said, we are very excited to be leaving it behind today. yesterday we traveled the 680 miles through iowa and nebraska. to be honest, the drive really wasn’t all that bad. it took us 10 hours including a few stops. going [...]
5 days
12Oct07in five more days we will be on the road with terra and pete, headed towards oregon. we’re still very excited but the details of moving can be quite stressful and of course having to say goodbye to so many great people can be difficult also.
today and tomorrow will be spent with family, sunday my [...]
two weeks
02Oct072 weeks to go. it’s really crazy to me that this is been such a long time coming and it’s actually here. we are so incredibly excited to get out there. things have been moving right along. in the last couple of weeks we’ve sold some furniture on craigs list, had a garage sale, and [...]
an update on portland
14Sep07a lot has happened in the past week. the biggest news we have is that deeann got a job! she will be taking a night shift in the ICU at the VA in portland.
now we start looking for places to live. we’ll have a little help from the people at western culinary institute. they have [...]







