We’re on the road again!

Unexpected circumstances occurred and we finished moving out of our Austin apartment yesterday. We put all our stuff in storage (with the help of some truly incredible friends who incidentally went WAY beyond the call of duty to assist us!!!) and haven’t gotten a new permanent residence. We’ve decided to become “housing optional” for now and are traveling again. We actually have even less of a concrete plan than we had the last time we up and started a road trip… so we hope you’ll come along for the ride!

It was sad to pack up and leave Austin. We weren’t in love with our apartment specifically, but we sure will miss the wonderful friends we made and the amazing sunsets we got to enjoy every night for the past six months from our balcony:

Many more interesting and exciting adventures to come!!

(Brilliantly apropos comic from xkcd!)

Hey guys! Sorry we haven’t blogged! Um… we have been really busy? Whatever. It doesn’t really matter. What DOES matter is that we went on another trip. Settle in for a bunch of new posts!!!

Oh, and also, sorry about all the spam. We’ve neglected the blog (obviously) and as you can see, we’ve been absolutely overrun with spam comments. We’re trying to figure out how to get some better spam blockers going on here. In the meantime, please don’t click on anything weird or gross in our comments! Deleting them is really time consuming (especially when there are 15,000 of them), and we’d rather spend our blog time uploading new posts and photos for you to enjoy.

We’re all settled in in Austin — well, sort of (we still have a lot of chaos at home). We arrived a couple of weeks ago and have been working hard on fixing up our apartment and all that stuff. But this past week, we got the very sad news that my grandmother LePoint passed away on Thursday. Anyone who knew her would tell you she was an absolutely incredible woman, lightyears ahead of her time, full of wisdom and humor and wit. Please take a few minutes to read this wonderful article about her life and work from the local paper in her town yesterday.

She was a career woman when most women didn’t have careers, a fierce advocate for the many causes dear to her heart, and an amazing and inspirational cook. She requested a jazz funeral, and Brian and I are looking forward to celebrating her life this weekend in Cleveland, Mississippi. When we come back, we do have a few adventures to share from the past few weeks… so please stay tuned.

Hey everybody. We’re on our way to Austin, and so are our hundreds (not kidding) of boxes of stuff. Our boxes and furniture are on a truck that I believe is currently in North Carolina or something; Brian, Pearl, and I are all at a Super 8 in Morristown, Tennessee. We’re hoping the three of us will be at our new apartment on Sunday, and our stuff is probably going to arrive on Wednesday. Phase 1 (packing) and Phase 2 (loading) were both so completely insane — and I am so, so exhausted from going through both of them plus lots and lots of tearful goodbyes — that I can’t even begin to describe this past week. Just trust me: it was crazy.

We’ll report back soon!