Saturday, March 29, 2008

Rochester...our new home!




Since our last post we have had quite a bit going on. We have not yet started our cycle trip, but we have done some travel. When we found that we had "matched" to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, we packed our stuff into a Uhaul and started driving to MN. We arrived this last Monday...you can see the truck with our car on the trailer in this post.

We started house hunting on Tuesday and by Wednesday we had unloaded our truck into a 5' x 10' x 8' (400 cubic feet total) storage unit (pictured), been pre-approved for a home loan, seen around 12 houses total, and made an offer on the one we liked (pictured). Stacy's uncle John came down from near the twin cities to inspect the house on Friday morning...Thanks to him.

The house passed inspection and we have planned closing for late May. We are now ready to return to Seattle where we will board Amtrak on Wednesday to arrive in San Diego on Friday. From there we plan to start our bicycle journey. All has gone well to date...we are praying that things will continue to go smoothly for our adventures.

later,
KON

Thursday, March 20, 2008


Pre-trip preparations...

Although we have not yet begun our trip, we have started to practice. We went on a ride with our friend Laura (a friend of Stacy's since high school), and we practiced jumping pictures. We also hope you enjoy our picture of us trying to look like we are in an advertisement with our trailers in tow. Until later,