I am skipping the “saying goodbye” part of our story for now, because, well, it’s really, really hard to put into words how it feels to move across the country from the only state you have called home and to leave all of your favorite people behind. Let’s just say, the ugly cry that happened when we pulled away from our house for the last time (and the subsequent THREE times, because we kept remembering things that we needed to go back for) was a big one. (Side note: I’m doing this all from memory 4 months later, so forgive the lack of details!)

We rolled out of Austin on the morning of December 17th, 2014, and headed off to our new life in New York. We had rented a car to get us across the country, because we really couldn’t figure out how to live for the first couple of months on just what we had in our suitcases, especially since we needed all of Nelly’s gear – her kennel, toys, food, etc. I wasn’t sure what our temporary apartment was going to provide, so in my normal fashion, I completely overcompensated and brought a crap-ton of stuff we never ended up needing. As David would say, ohhhhh well.

See, told you that we had too much crap. 

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