Dateline: Charleston. That's SC, not WV. Not to disparage the beautiful state of West Virginia (stop mountain-top removal now!!), but Charleston, South Carolina is the place to be...340 years of colonial/American history, an amazingly restored historic downtown area, friendly people, and some of the best Southern cooking you'll ever eat. So here we are, settled in our little apartment, enjoying the weather (beautiful, sunny and cool), finding our way around, and wishing our townhome back in CA would sell already.
Me: looking for work in nonprofit, missing the mountains and canyons of California, but loving the marshes, rivers and wildlife of the Lowcountry. Used to be a tourist, now transitioning into being a local. Had my first experience with a tourist the other day, who stopped me on Market St. and asked me how to get to Broad St. -- and I knew the right answer!
Thanksgiving and the holidays will be different this year. Hard for family back home, missing them, they're missing us. The American diaspora. Took us eight years to get here, but here we are indeed. Gotta go where you're pulled. That's all for this first post, just some ramblings. More later.
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