Sailboat Reflection

WELCOME

Welcome to my blog about our new adventures about moving from sub-tropical coastal South Carolina (Charleston) to a city in the Sonoran Desert (Tucson). My first struggle is to learn to spell Tucson correctly as I tend to want to switch the c and the s!
Just a brief history of each city first:
Charleston (formerly Charles Town) was founded in 1670 and moved to its present location in 1680 by English settlers. Charleston was a focal point for the American Revolution (1176-1785) and was seized and was under British control through 1782. it was also the first state to secede from the Union and the first shot of the American Civil War was fired here on to Fort Sumter where the Union army was holed up. It is city filled with history and has been beautifully preserved. It is continually voted as one of the best cities to visit and the friendliest people.
Tucson, Arizona is located about 120 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the Mexican border. The Spanish colonizers tried to seize the land from the local Native tribes in the 1770's, It was officailly founded by the Irish exporer Hugh O'Connor in 1775 and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.Tucson is considered one of the "Mega-Trend" cities of the 21st century. It has the beauty of the Sonaran desert as well as being surrounded by five mountain ranges. It is also considered a very "artsy" area which is good for me. It is a huge area for photography and hopefully, will make me grow and push myself further in that field.
Tom will be working at Raytheon Missile Defense Systems. He will doing speechwriting and other executive communications duties.
We are looking forward to all of our opportunities and hope you will check back with my blog from time to time to see how "jen's journey" is proceeding.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

And so it goes...

So Tom and I have just about made it through our first "bi-country" week. I think we are both exhausted- he with his new job and me trying to accomplish so much. I also worked at both of the galleries that I am in this week. I got the house listed and I believe it went on MLS yesterday. The realtor is great and was set up for us through the relocation service. She has even posted our house on you tube! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21PsSUDrj6o So aren't we social mediazed? (word?)So keep your fingers crossed that there is a nice family out there just looking for our house!
Tom is loving his new job so far. It has already been challenging and he has already had to do some crisis management. His hours have been long and he doesn't have his office yet so he is in a cubicle in the meantime. So this corporate environment is a whole new world for Tom. They have given him a Blackberry that I think is going to become my enemy because last night they were still e-mailing him work up to 10:30! I don't think I'll be crazy about Tom being that "connected" to his work! Hopefully, that won't be the rule but I will let you know as time goes on. One really, really good thing is that he is off every other Friday (unless something comes up). So that will be really nice to be able to have longer weekends to explore more of the area. So many of the places we want to visit are about 6 hours away and with that extra day that makes that more feasible for a weekend trip. So this being Tom's first Friday off he is going house hunting tomorrow. Hopefully, he finds us some good choices.

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