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.

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

My Tuesday


My Tuesday was a good one. I accomplished a good bit of personal business in the morning then was greeted by the smiling face of my 3 year old great nephew, Greyson. It is so nice to have some little body so glad to see you and the unconditional, unspoiled love of a child. He lives in Georgia so it is so special every time I have the opportunity to spend time with him. He came as a special treat to come to Charleston with his dad all alone. His dad (my nephew) is here to do the special effects at Seacoast Church for their annual passion play at Easter, The Thorn. It is an awesome and moving show. Greyson and I went to my neighborhood play park and had a grand time swinging, see-sawing, and sliding! When I returned to my car I had a message from my friend Debbie reminding me to me her in North Charleston to eat before our concert. Well, thank goodness she called with a reminder message because I thought our show was TONIGHT!!! So I had to take Greyson along for the eating part until my sister could pick him up from me. (Thanks to my friends for not minding that I had to do that!)
The show we went to see is a Mexican duo, Rodrigo y Gabriela. They were the most awesome acoustic guitarist! They play rhythemic guitars with a bit of folk rock and latin rock. Gabriela stole the show with her hand moving beyond eye following speeds and playing almost all of the guitar, not just the strings, to produce rhythemic percussion. And the crowd was quite eclectic and attracted people of all ages. Take a listen to them if you can.
And when I talked to Tom after the show he was already in bed! It was 7:40PM there! I think the new job is really taking it out of him. You would think the time difference would make it hard for us to talk in the evenings because of me going to bed but it is actually the opposite. Tom is always going to bed about the time I am settling down! Well, such is our new life...

1 comment:

  1. Hey great pics! Glad ya'll are doing well! Miss you! :-)

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