Road Trip! Florida-->California

I know it's been about a month since the road trip that took me to visit many of you readers on my way to my new home of San Francisco. However I wanted to post a quick recap of the amazing trip that took me cross country for my new job in this beautiful city!

Some of you may know, I have a promise to myself to always leave room in my life for adventure. Part of that promise is that any time I switch jobs, I'll take some time off in between to travel or just do some sort of adventure. Ideally these will be bigger trips like visits back to Europe. but for this time, it instead was turning my move form Florida to San Francisco into a road trip littered with visits to friends and family across the country. And so the journey began.

I had a super stressful time leaving Gainesville, with merely a week to pack, sell my things, find a sub letter for my apartment, and make plans for the drive to and arrival in San Francisco.  Thankfully all the pieces fell into place, I was able to sell everything that I didn't fit into my car, a friend just so happened to need a sub letter for her apartment in SF for a few weeks after my arrival, I got a sub letter, and one of my closest friends was able to make the time to meet me out east and drive cross country with me. With all the stress of trying to get the stars to align for my leaving, it was amazing how things just worked out.

I left Gainesville early on a Saturday morning (after visiting the local alligators) and drove about 9 hours to stay with my family near Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  After a few awesome days playing with cousins, I took off for Dallas, Texas, where I stayed with some good friends from SkillsUSA.  A day of adventuring there and then Kat, my copilot for the rest of the drive, arrived and we made our

way on the long 14 hour stretch from Dallas to Fort Collins, Colorado where we visited with my mom and took a quick jaunt up to Cheyenne to see my sisters and some dear friends and mentors.

After that, 6 hours took us to the "mountain house" where my grandparents live and we decided to take a few days to rest up and enjoy the mountain air.  Here, we were greeted by snow (the first Kat had ever experienced) before we trekked across Utah and Nevada to stay in Reno with Tom.

After an evening of all-you-can-eat sushi, we made our way to Kat's parents home in Healdsburg where we loaded up on wine, apples, and applesauce.

It was there that I parted with Kat to make my final drive to San Francisco, where I was put up by Joeva in 'our' room before I started work the next day!

I was able to stay in Joeva's room through October and have had an amazing time getting used to the public transportation and life in San Francisco.  I'm completely in love with being here and with my new job. So updates on life in the city will be coming to you soon!!

Thank You to everyone who hosted, visited, met up with, and drove with me on the amazing trip cross country!!