Travel Log 2005

In August, Chris and I commenced penning a new chapter in our lives – relocating to Washington, D.C. Although we left the towering peaks of Utah unsure of our future, based on miracles which led us here, the move was definitely meant to be.

That’s not to say our will, faith and sanity were not tested to the very nucleus. By mid-July we had no jobs, no apartment, no information about “safe” parts of town and no idea what we were getting ourselves into. We spent sleepless nights wondering how we would pay rent, let alone afford a moving truck to transport our junk to an as-yet-undecided location across the country.

We were stressed out.

Thanks to a fortuitous Cancun trip and good friends (who didn’t know they would become our friends at the time), we made it. And we landed jobs and we found an apartment, and we learned to stay away from Anacostia and we lived happily ever after.

Ok, that’s the fairy tale ending. But the story before “happily ever after” is a good one. Below are the highlights: