The Invisible Library

I’ve added a few more pics of our cross country trip. Have a look!

I’ve updated my Flickr album of cross country photos. More will be coming as soon as we finish unpacking.

This was the part fo the trip where everythign became long and weird and began to run togethe rinto a fever dream of driving, truck stops and landscapes. Very pretty but very hard to remember now just what was what.

On top of moving, I had a job interview, complete with a presentation to do. I’ll post the speach text and the slideshow here shortly.

Who knew packing your life into a truck and moving across country would be so tiring and busy?

I’ve set up a flickr set of our photos, documenting our move from Savannah, GA to Salem, OR.

This is the first leg of our trip, through North Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Illinois.

When we got home Monday from visiting my folks, we discovered that our cable was gone. The TV and the Internet connection were not just on the blink but non existent. A few phone calls later proved that we were without signal altogether. Then our DVD player died. I am so not making this up. A week before we leave, with emails and all sorts of Internet related work to be done and no internet, and–and!– no way to watch TV, which is a nice way to alleviate the boredom of packing, to have some noise in the background. It’s excruciating, I tell you.

If I can manage to get to a cafe or some place with free wifi, I’ll have a cat picture up before we hit the road. My plan is to still post pictures of our trip across the country so keep an eye out for those as well.

It’s been really hard to sit on this news for the last two moths but finally I can share our big announcement: Elvira and I are moving to Salem, Oregon!

After 13 way-too-long years,* we’re finally getting the fuck out of Georgia, packing up the cats and heading west.

We’ll be leaving on July 1st and arriving sometime on July 7th or 8th, with a stop over in Peoria, Illinois to visit Elvira’s brother. I’m planing on shooting photos of the trip and I hope to post those here on the blog while we’re on the road.

Regular posting for the next two weeks or so might be light, as we’re in the midst of packing, looking for an apartment on the other side of the country and all that fun stuff that comes with slowly dismantling one’s life, one box at a time.

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*Mostly. I was in Maryland for the better part of 2 years at grad school.