Since we’ve announced that we’re heading East to get back to the ocean….friends, family and total strangers have (for some reason not yet clear to us) decided to give us their opinion on where we should live. Claudia and I both find this very odd, since where you decide to live is a deeply personal decision. I mean, really people, we have literally just devoted two full years on this quest, driven over 50,000 miles and spent a lot of money searching the country for a location that will work for us. Trust me when I say this one last time….if there was a perfect location, we would have already found it and moved there. But alas…there wasn’t. Henry David Thoreau was fortunate to have found Walden Pond, but even he only stayed there two years (HA…that makes me feel better already). At the end of the day, you simply have to find a spot that checks off most of the boxes and go for it. Will that spot be perfect? Nope. Will it be good enough? Absolutely.

Joni Mitchell wrote many beautiful songs and one in particular is “Amelia” ( a tribute to Amelia Earhart) that sums up my feelings on this subject:

“People will tell you where they've gone

They'll tell you where to go

But till you get there yourself you'll never really know

Where some have found their paradise

Other's just come to harm

Oh Amelia it was just a false alarm”

Thanks Joni….you nailed it.

Cheers!

Wayne, Claudia & Tuck