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.

Saturday, January 16, 2010
















Yesterday=house hunting=disaster! Nothing, no good houses. Tom and I depressed! Today=house hunting=success. we found an area we loved in the Northwest. Beautful mountain views and nice drive. Much nicer area of Tucson. There are 2 ways we can go with houses here. Newer housing with less updating and repairs but with NO land or older 60's and 70's houses with an acre + of land, bigger pools, but lots of work to be done. We are leaning towards the newer house as we do not have long term plans to stay here for years (at this juncture) so we do not want to spend so much time/effort/money working on our house. So I am posting pictures of two different styles of houses that we liked today. One is Santa Fe style and the other is california contemporary. Any thoughts anyone?

2 comments:

  1. Love the pool in the third pic!!

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  2. well, you won't have to put a lot of time into yard work if you get the last one. More time for fun stuff!

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