Day 1 - To parts unknown...

      Well, after a 12 hour drive, a stop in Washington, PA and half a day of official homelessness (we were tempted to find a bridge to sit under), we've found our home away from home, and for a great price.  Housing here is ridiculous-- $1400/mo for a 1bed/1 bath before the $150 utility bill and who knows how high of food prices.  Luckily, we found a room in a shared townhouse in North Bethesda that was more reasonable.... $1200/mo including utilities.  Our landlord and housemate, Maria, is an Ecuadorian Spanish translator and has been more than welcoming.  She gave us the tour of Bethesda yesterday and the area is just beautiful.

You'll have to excuse the photo editing job... a netbook is just not designed for precision...

    We've spent most of today exploring the N. Bethesda area and figuring out how Meghan is going to get to work w/o a car.  I think later we will attempt our first Metro ride and see how that goes.  Looks like we're going to be walking a lot... which is good both for the wallet and for the diet... Goodbye couch, hello 5k.  There's no Walmart in Bethesda (darn hippies) so we are off to find our new shopping locale.  For those of you that are a little more picky about your food choices, apparently there is a new Whole Foods, Trader Joe's and Organic Market around here somewhere and a fancy-shmancy supermarket called Balducci's which apparently is super expensive.  Regardless, we need to go shopping, because even though the food around here seems to be really good, it's also really expensive.  I'm seeing a trend here...

In general all three of us have been very pleased with the move.  The area we're in is very nice.  People have been very friendly (until they get in their cars that is).  The food has been really good as well.  Go figure... leave a college town and have great pizza twice in one day!!

I'm going to try to update everyday or so... we'll see how it goes.  I've already got some ideas for interactive activities to keep everyone engaged...BE EXCITED!!!

The weather has been beautiful here... hope everyone else is experiencing something similar!