Comments on: Hay-Barn-Apple Tree

By: Melisa

Melisa — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:11:28 +0000

Um, I think Natalie needs to stop trying to talk you into moving there. Obviously, you’re going to move to Oak Park or Evanston IL so that you’ll be in a smaller awesome community that happens to be just outside of Chicago!

By: Natalie

Natalie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:34:11 +0000

Have you ever read A Walk Across America? A man (and then later, his fiancee) decides to just walk and meet people and have adventures with his dog. Fun and inspirational reading, but it also happened in the late 60s/early 70s, so it would be hard to replicate. But great reading!

On the where-to-live question, any smaller location is going to have many of the same issues that y’all face there, except for small towns with college campuses. If you move to a larger area, say, the DC metro area, that has small-town-feeling places with lots of diversity and many WONDERFUL features (and family), then you might find community more to your liking. Just sayin’.

By: Kara

Kara — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:04:46 +0000

One of the in-laws’ friends actually hitch-hiked across the US at the tender age of 20ish with a baby in tow. And this was 30-odd years ago. Kinda frightening, when I think about it… But it might make for some nice writing fodder. If it helps, it cost us about $2500 for the pods to move cross-country, and that’s with two of them.