Jen’s job in Palo Alto starts May 9, but we’re taking off the prior week to drive west across America. I just hope we don’t die of dysentery. We’ve spent the last two weeks coming up with lists of things to bring and saying we’ll start packing every tomorrow. We haven’t gotten too far. Jen’s been working six out of the last seven days so there hasn’t been much we could do together.

It feels a bit weird handing our house off while we’re preparing for our summer in California. Jen’s sister will be squatting at the house while we’re gone, which should work well for her since she’ll be taking classes at the university a few miles away. She was over at our place yesterday and we walked through the house pointing out all the little things that she needs to know, much like we were shown two years ago when we bought the house.

We’re finally doing it! Jen got her first travel nurse assignment and it’s in Palo Alto, California. We’ll be packing up the Jeep and leaving in a few short weeks. This is something we’ve been wanting to do for years. Before we got married, the plan was to live a year in our Kentwood apartment and then start bouncing around the country on travel nurse assignments. As fate would have it, the economy tanked right at the same time as we got married and all the travel nurse gigs dried up.