A Much Needed Update

Looking at my last posting I realized that I haven't even wrote about our move to Humboldt. Long story short, after moving to Pullman, WA for graduate school, getting unpacked, getting jobs, getting settled, we decided to move. The program was not right for me, the town was not right for us, and we were way way way to far from family for our liking. After 2 miserable days trying to make a decision I called up Humboldt State University, the program I was supposed to be going to that fall, and asked if their offer for admission for the fall semester was still good cosndiering that I declined my admissions. The program director said absolutly, "as long as you can make it down here." So we rented a u-haul, packed up our lives in 8 hours, and the next day headed for California once again. Those 3 days were the longest and most stressful in my life filled with lots of tears and worry. But, on the drive home we both felt the relief setting in as we left the palouse and traveled back to the Redwoods and the ocean. Mike and I both say every once in a while we miss the palouse with its rolling wheat fields. We had some wonderful times hiking Moscow Mountain in Idaho, driving across the Washington/Idaho border almost daily, and trying to make a living in a land with no trees. The palouse and Pullman, WA, with it's strange August thunderstorms and dessert like feeling will strangely always hold a place in our hearts. Although sometimes I miss that month that we spent there, leaving Pullman was one of our better ideas, and now we are here, in Humboldt County, another foreign place....but much more like home.