Welcome back. It's a little daunting starting this up again after a few months off, but the past few months have been strange, and storytelling didn't seem to fit in very well. But, we have stories to tell as we took advantage of a little extra time off - more than we had anticipated - to continue traveling stateside. And so I plan to start sharing those stories soon, and trying to keep up with our latest adventures even though they'll be more domestic than 'worldwide'.
Today seemed like a good day to check back in here. We've been in our new apartment 10 days now, which oddly feels like a substantial stretch of time. In the last 5 months, we gratefully took advantage of the generous full board innkeeping of my parents in New Hampshire and Jason's dad & stepmom in Long Beach, which provided short-term constancy. Yet when we look back over the course of the year we have stayed in nearly 100 different places. It's a rough estimate, one which I'll count at some point, but I believe it's accurate +/- 15%. So after hostels, thatched huts, tents, guest houses, friends' air beds, and a variety of other lodging, we finally have a place of our own to call 'home'.
Since this has proven to be a particularly exciting concept, we decided to stay put for Thanksgiving. We're slowly getting settled, rediscovering our belongings which have been in storage for a year - or in some cases 3 1/2 years since we left NYC. We're putting together an apartment that feels slightly more 'adult' than our last one, in an effort to feel we've moved on although we're living 3 blocks from our last place. And we're taking advantage of being back in NYC, seeing good friends and relishing in the familiarity of it.
Of course NYC on Thanksgiving means the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! I used to love watching the parade on TV, and the opportunity to see it in person had me all excited. So this morning I dragged Jason and my hungover self down to 54th Street & 7th Avenue to watch the balloons float by. I was giddy. And it did not disappoint.
See more pictures of the parade here - there are some cool ones - like these:
Back at our apartment we prepared a Thanksgiving feast for 2. This means we'll be eating turkey til Christmas, but the fact that we cooked it in our own kitchen with our own pans and ate it on our own new dining table in our own apartment made us reflect that we have much to be thankful for. Not these belongings, but the fact that we have had an extraordinary year, that we have incredibly supportive family, and that we have finally begun to embark on our next adventure.
Today seemed like a good day to check back in here. We've been in our new apartment 10 days now, which oddly feels like a substantial stretch of time. In the last 5 months, we gratefully took advantage of the generous full board innkeeping of my parents in New Hampshire and Jason's dad & stepmom in Long Beach, which provided short-term constancy. Yet when we look back over the course of the year we have stayed in nearly 100 different places. It's a rough estimate, one which I'll count at some point, but I believe it's accurate +/- 15%. So after hostels, thatched huts, tents, guest houses, friends' air beds, and a variety of other lodging, we finally have a place of our own to call 'home'.
Since this has proven to be a particularly exciting concept, we decided to stay put for Thanksgiving. We're slowly getting settled, rediscovering our belongings which have been in storage for a year - or in some cases 3 1/2 years since we left NYC. We're putting together an apartment that feels slightly more 'adult' than our last one, in an effort to feel we've moved on although we're living 3 blocks from our last place. And we're taking advantage of being back in NYC, seeing good friends and relishing in the familiarity of it.
Of course NYC on Thanksgiving means the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade! I used to love watching the parade on TV, and the opportunity to see it in person had me all excited. So this morning I dragged Jason and my hungover self down to 54th Street & 7th Avenue to watch the balloons float by. I was giddy. And it did not disappoint.
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| Jason was skeptical until he got to pose with Snoopy |
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| He gets Snoopy and all I get is this silly ice cream cone... |
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| ... and Uncle Sam. Not fair. |
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| OK this makes up for the ice cream cone. |
See more pictures of the parade here - there are some cool ones - like these:
Back at our apartment we prepared a Thanksgiving feast for 2. This means we'll be eating turkey til Christmas, but the fact that we cooked it in our own kitchen with our own pans and ate it on our own new dining table in our own apartment made us reflect that we have much to be thankful for. Not these belongings, but the fact that we have had an extraordinary year, that we have incredibly supportive family, and that we have finally begun to embark on our next adventure.
