We'll soon be homeless; three travelers adrift in the world.
The house in
Berthoud continues to get showings. No offers yet, but apparently at least one repeat showing.
Meanwhile, we are now set to spend June and July in Frisco, Colorado, just a stone's throw away from Vail and the other big-name ski resorts. Obviously there's no skiing in summertime, but plenty of other things to do in the great outdoors. Dana has an internship at an intellectual property firm there.
So where is Frisco? Just follow the little green arrow. (Incidentally, that arrow partially covers up beautiful Lake Dillon, the centerpiece of an already gorgeous valley)I will try my hand again at working remotely for most of the work-week.
Hah! As if Seattle wasn't distracting enough for me last summer. Fortunately I'll be close enough to make the trek into Fort Collins at least a few times, hopefully once a week to see people, attend meetings, physically persuade server hardware to work properly, etc.
I think we may have found a beautiful condo to rent, overlooking Lake Dillon and within walking distance of downtown.
We have a signed lease in hand for the Fort Collins rental with some great students as far as we can tell. I'll start the remodeling on about May 5 in preparation for their May 26 move-in. On the list are: New flooring downstairs, new gate and/or fencing in the backyard, finally fix the doorbell, re-paint much of the basement, replace 2 or 3 interior doors, possibly replace the front door, some front-yard replanting or irrigation work, and who-knows what else. The current tenants have not been kind to the place, but a lot of this was also built-up deferred maintenance.
I'll be enlisting help on most of this work, since I don't have a lot of free time these days.
One question we keep getting is, "So once you sell your house, where are you going to live?"
The short answer with a long explanation is, "We don't know." We plan to rent a house for the remaining two years of Dana's law degree at DU. We will probably rent somewhere farther south than
Berthoud to make Dana's commute that much shorter. Once she graduates, we'll have a much better picture of where we can move, and where we
want to move based on job prospects, child care, schools, not to mention my own job. It's a wide open field at that point - we have obvious ties to the west coast, but we love Colorado too. I could see us moving back to Fort Collins for the right job, or Denver, or Oakland, or Seattle, or... it's well outside our 2-year detailed planning window.
This weekend I'll be in Bellingham, Washington for
Linuxfest Northwest. I'll be presenting on Saturday morning on our little project,
FOSSology. I've never been before, but it looks like an outstanding, grass-roots community conference. I'm glad we're going to be a part of it. I'll get to hang out with some co-workers including Matt from Seattle and Bryan from Fort Collins, and who knows who else that will show up at this 2-day geek-fest :-) It looks like I'll even have stickers! Yay!
