San Francisco!

June 13, 2008 | Filed Under Uncategorized 

Well, I’m finally… in San Francisco.  

For years, I’d wanted to move out to San Francisco.  But stuff just kept coming up.  New opportunities in DC kept presenting themselves, and I stayed… and stayed.. and stayed.  

The one day last year in the spring, I said to myself - I’ll never leave DC if I don’t make a firm plan to get out of here.  I privately decided that I would move in the Fall of 2007. 

I first let slip of my plans in this blog post.  Things were a-go for the fall, and the wheels were turning.  

As my days in DC drew to an end, and I was furiously packing up and wrapping up all those loose ends, I made a decision that would delay, yet AGAIN my arrival in San Francisco.  

I decided to go to Bishop first.  It was just supposed to be two, three months, then I’d continue on my way to San Francisco and make my place here.  

But I nearly stayed in Bishop.  I fell in love with the little town.  The amazing climbing.  The beautiful weather and mountains.  I started thinking about mabye just putting down roots in Bishop for a year, mabye more.  

The fates thought otherwise.  They acted that late St. Patrick’s day afternoon - and I fell off a rock.   The resulting weeks, confined to my chair at my small cottage in Bishop brought clarity to my original dream of moving out to this city.  It was not meant for me to stay in Bishop.  It was time to move on.  

But I had to go home first, so back to Minneapolis I went.  My brother got married.  Then I was back on the road with my aunt, racing towards San Francisco.  

And I’m finally here!  I arrived Monday.  I’ve been spending the last few days getting settled in and joining up with old friends, and making new friends.  

I hope to share with all of you more of what’s to come!

 

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