oregon trail... December 11, 2005

Hello deep fried doughnuts,

At long last, the word is out....Gabey D. and I are moving to Oregon!

We're leaving the big apple behind after eight fantastico years here. It was a tough decision, but it's rolling along now at full speed and there is no stopping it.

We have visions of covered wagons and poisonous snakes dancing in our brains. We lay in bed at night trying to imagine the tetris-like fortress we will build in the Chevy out of our boxes and instruments and furniture....

Some folks that we tell that we're moving to Portland, ask us what the heck we think we're doing. "Why leave now when so much is happening for you here in New York?"

The truth is, we have a stack of reasons to stay and a slightly bigger stack of reasons to try something new. And at this point, we're both feeling ready to flomp into a bigger fish tank and thrash around. It could work! It could fail. It could get messy. It could be tree houses and baked pies and music on the front porch. It could...be impossibly hard, with rainy nights of regret. Chances are it will be all of these things.

try + flomp = win

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We're heading out on February 1st. We're going to take the long way cross country, (through the south) for two main reasons.

1. We will avoid snow.

2. We can settle our long standing bet about whether the boob roller coaster at Dollywood does or does not exist. (My vote is, yes. Yes it does.)