Mark Posting: Last night I considered multi-tasking by writing a blog while watching the Patriots play the Colts on Sunday night football. I'm thankful I decided to focus on the game though as I fear my computer would have endured an abrupt meeting with the wall. Even though I'm typically not as vocal as, say, my older brother it took quite a bit of restraint to remain on my best behavior while watching the game at the home of Liz's aunt and uncle. It is not worth reliving the horror that was "Football Night in America" as I'm sure any of [View Full Entry]

---

---

Liz posting: After arriving in the Jackson area- actually [url=http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4345+hoback+river+road,+jackson,+wy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=4345+Hoback+River+Rd,+Jackson,+WY+83001&gl=us&ei=Zu_6SuOAEI_-nAeszqj4DA&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=title&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA] just south of Hoback Junction - we are finally settled in. The hard, windy drive from Colorado to Jackson was not that fun, but arriving to my aunt's house with glasses of wine and beer nearly poured for us was. Saturday was a really long, full [View Full Entry]

---

---

Liz posting: It looks cold outside. Even though my weather bug tells me its only 33.8 with no wind, it still looks cold outside. We live in a narrow valley in between what I would consider two foothills of the Wyoming mountain range. We woke up with a light dusting of snow on the "hills" and I can see the tall pine trees swaying forty feet up. The house overlooks the Hoback river and even though it is running a good clip still, unaffected by ice, I bet it is cold. Even the mother and twin fawns that come to graze [View Full Entry]

---

---

Mark Posting: The last couple posts have been exhaustive recounts of every little thing that Liz and I have done. I can guarantee another one of those will be available to all you eager readers soon enough. However, tonight I am going to save my fingertips and simply upload a bunch of photos that we've taken over the past several days which have not yet made their way onto the blog. Side note - I really don't like the word blog. I enjoy reading several of them and am having a great time writing this one with Liz but find it [View Full Entry]

---

---

Liz blogging: I have done the monotonous drive across Kansas countless times- from listening to Hangin’ Tough on a walkman to driving it with friends for impromptu winter break ski trips. Mark and I started our trip across by nearly Jim-Icenogle “O’dark Thirty” standards. Even though the drive is ten hours of practically nothing but wheat fields, churches and cattle transportation trucks, we both enjoyed the drive more than the other long haul segments we have done so far. There wasn’t a lot to think about- just point and go. For those who have done the dr [View Full Entry]

---

---

MMark posting: Hope everyone had a Happy Halloween! I started this blog on Saturday morning but it is now Monday and we are on the road to Denver. Liz is driving the first segment through KC tp I-70 that will take us through Kansas and all the way to Denver. Before I recap our week at the lake I’d like to take a moment to point out a couple of National Lampoon moments from the past 24 hours (and actually 15 minutes) - just call me Clark and Liz can be referred to as Ellen. • On Friday I took my [View Full Entry]

---

---

Mark posting: It's a beautiful day at the Icenogle Lakeside Villa where Liz and I are regrouping before the rest of our trip commences. We will spend the week organizing our belongings, carving pumpkins, attending a Camdenton High School football game (Liz is beside herself that any high school game be played on Saturday morning/afternoon as Xaverian often does) and even constructing a headboard for Liz's bed here at the Villa. I will cover our tentative travel schedule at the end of the blog - in the meantime, here is a recap of the second leg of our move: On Sunday [View Full Entry]

---

---

Mark posting: As Liz mentioned we had an exhausting day of packing on Thursday and we followed that up with a marathon day of driving beginning very early on Friday. More than seventeen hours after leaving DC we arrived in Memphis, TN safely and with all our belongings in tow. We found our hotel, the Holiday Inn Select, with only a minor hiccup - that being when the Garmin proudly announced we had arrived at our destination in the parking lot of an Olive Garden. I could give the little lady (it's a female voice on the Garmin and I call [View Full Entry]

---

---

Hello from Mark and Liz- Current location- Southeast DC Right now Mark and I are sitting on the couch of a very nice friend- Thanks A. and B. Darconte who offer their spare bedroom to us the night before setting off. And boy are we glad they offered because our plan to pack the mattress tomorrow morning would have seriously back fired. The truck is FULL- see picture. We hired a nice law student to help us load the truck and most of the moving was finished in two hours. Today we started the day off with steak, eggs and mimosas [View Full Entry]

---

---

About a month from now Liz and I will have packed up the apartment here in DC and will perhaps be somewhere on I-81 headed to Memphis, a stopover location we've chosen along our way to Kansas City. Today, however, starts a month of traveling the friendly skies for both of us. I will be flying to and from Missouri three times and Liz, who is in the air at this very moment, travels to KC for a week before continuing on to Portland, OR. (Using flightview.com I can see she is above a giant patch of rain - hopefully - [View Full Entry]

---

---