Sailboat Reflection

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.

Friday, February 19, 2010

Mom's BD







Tom has gone back to Tucson. He is loving his new job so far! He is going to go to the Accenture golf tournament this weekend. One of our friends here has a brother out there that she hooked Tom up with and he was kind enough to give him tickets for this weekend! He is also lined up to do some house hunting for us.



We did not come to terms for a contract on our house with our offer. It was a young couple and we believe they did not really have the money for this house. They were getting a 100% loan which I was hoping was not possible anymore. But we are still hopeful for someone else to love our house enough to give us a good offer. All of our feedback has been very positive. We had an agents caravan on Wednesday and they were all very positive about it.



Yesterday was my mom's 86th birthday!! She is just incredible! She does NOT seem 86! We celebrated Wednesday night since my sister was leaving for Washington yesterday. We went to eat at Sullivan's, a local seafood restaurant, and then had cake and gifts at her house. I had her over for supper last night. It was nice for just the two of us to have that time together. My sister Dianne is on her way from Orlando today to help my mom with moving. She and her husband will stay with me this weekend. My brother and his wife are also coming and staying at my mom's house. She closes on Feb. 26 so we will all be headed to Hendersonville, NC then to help my mom.
And we have had a wonderful time with my little nephews here!



So life is continuing on that crazy busy path for the time being...
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  1. KellyFebruary 19, 2010 at 5:31 PM

    Happy Birthday, Mom!! Good-looking nephews, by the way!

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