We turned west again through upstate New York, heading towards Elmira for my oldest, best friend’s wedding. It was raining hard again, waves of water smashing into the windshield, and we passed through the downpour into the gentle hills just north of Pennsylvania. There were no hotel rooms for 100 miles – it was Hall of Fame weekend in Cooperstown, […]

The week wore on. We played a game of tap-dance with the moving; after renting a U-haul to bring our stuff to the Dome, we unloaded our belongings at the end of the driveway and returned to Novato to pick up the trailer hitch at the Advance. We’d hook it up there, then drive to Woodland and pick up the […]

The week before we left California, we began to get phone calls from Tim. “I’m bringing a trampoline cover,” he said. “And a come-along, and some drills and tools. Do you have any tools?” The calls were ominous. We’d packed dozens of books and other things into boxes, hauled them to the post office, and sent them off to Vermont, […]