Two years ago today I arrived in the west! Ryan and I traveled for six days to move all my things to Washington from Rhode Island.
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| Elvis bravely guarding my stuff from the Uhaul. |
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| Ready to embark! |
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| One more mushy look before setting out! |
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| Our modern day covered wagon. |
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| Elvis was pretty freaked out the first two days of travel. This is him clinging to me in a hotel room. |
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| Taking a quick, sleepy photo in a hotel in the midwest. Note Elvis is beginning to chill out. |
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| North Dakota is a terrifying place. |
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| TRAVEL PUDDING! |
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| Montana |
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| Westward bound smoochin'. |
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| How we kept Elvis happy on the road. |
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| A photo after a particularly long, boring stretch of road. Going...strong? |
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| This country has SO MUCH WHEAT. |
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| For six days we survived on American diner food. |
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| Ryan mapping our journey through the futuristic magic of his phone. |
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| Elvis settling into life on the road. |
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| Follow the sun! |
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| It turns out 70% of the country looks like this. |
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| Our apartment building the day we moved in. |
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| Goofing around one of our first nights "home". |
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| Happiness achieved! |
One of these days I promise, I'll tell the whole, unabridged story of how Ryan and I fell in love and decided to run away together five days after our first date. I know I keep saying that, but I really will**.
**Edit: I finally did! You can read it here. Enjoy! :)
**Edit: I finally did! You can read it here. Enjoy! :)
Can't wait for the rest of the story! How's Elvis today? Love Siamese (was brought up with them) and now am Grandma to 3 moggies and, this week, ended up with a Grandpuppy! Hope all goes well - have been remiss in checking up on all the blogs I'm supposed to follow. Life has been somewhat hectic and I've been a bit slow blogging myself too.
ReplyDeleteCheers.
He is quite well! The west suits our Siamese, however initially miffed he may have been when we first left. Congratulations on the Grandpuppy--and the 3 moggies :)
ReplyDeleteI just read your blog, I was happy to see you typing away again! I hope Peter is feeling better than he was a few months ago. One day soon I'll post the story behind how Ryan and I fell in love. I wrote it all out once for saving, but it was about 6-7 pages, so I feel like I would have to boil that down a bit for a blog post. I will though, so many folks know we moved out here together soon after we began our courtship but even some of our friends don't know how we became an item.
I love your chronological photo posts. :)
ReplyDeleteTim knows hot it happened, saw thr whole thing go down.
ReplyDeleteHahaha! Tim. Thank you, Francela!
ReplyDeleteAs Francela and some of you already know, I did just write out our whole story! It can be found here: http://www.pseudooctopus.com/2012/04/our-story.html Enjoy! :)