Of travels and travails: moving to the Bay Area

One fine Monday in October we set off on one of our biggest adventures yet: relocating the family from our comfortable Midwestern life to a new start in the San Francisco Bay Area. We considered driving ourselves across the country in one of those massive U-Haul trucks with our car towing at the back, but as even the thought of having to maneuver the speedbumps at the end of our street let alone 3000 miles of road had me in severe fits of anxiety, we ended up shipping everything and driving ourselves across in our reliable Nissan Rogue. (Hey! I hear you say. You are a lesbian living in Madison, WI! Where is your Subaru? Calm down. I did have a Suby for years but I traded it in for the Rogue when they came out with a really cool burnt orange color. Yes, I bought my car for its color. So? (Read more here)