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.

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Another day...more houses!







Okay, another day of house hunting. Today we went to Vail in the southeast of Tucson. We were actually prepared to not like it as well but actually liked that it is under developed on the way out to the area. I would rather live in the north as that is closer to almost everywhere else we would want to go. (The south is just closer to Mexico!) We found one possible house today that I will post some photos that show abit of the outside. We were disappointed to find that one of the houses that I posted photos of yesterday got a contract today. That would be the 2 story one that overlooked the golf course. I loved the views from the bedroom balcony overlooking the mountains. And if we overlooked the golf course maybe seeing all that green might help us adjusting to the desert scene. The other one we are afraid will go quickly too as it is such a nice house with the great outdoor area.



We did have a fun eating "experience" last night. Tom has a cousin Kate that lives her and she took us to an Ethiopian restaurant. It was fantastic! You eat with your fingers and all of you at the table share the food. It is all piled on a big platter and you use this starchy flat bread to pick it up. we even had spicy collard greens which, being the southerner that I am, I loved! And was surprised to get those out west! Ironically, the people that worked there were quite skinny!



Anyway, more house hunting tomorrow..... Stay tuned!

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