Hasta La Vista California

Corona Del Mar
Saturday, September 9, 2006

As our days came to a close in charming Newport Beach, we came to a few conclusions and that was mostly that we weren't cut out for LA. More so than ever we realized that open space and short commutes were always going to be on our priority list in order for us to call a place home. We might not have spent as much time as we should have exploring the West Coast, but we also decided to take the freedom that we had at this moment of being completely unencumbered (no rent, utilities or houseplants) to continue exploring the USA.

For the past several months Tom (who graduated from college pre-med way back when), has been assisting with medical research for a start-up Internet company called cvPipeline.com. This new online database solution keeps up to date with emerging products and companies in the fast changing CardioVascular (CV) market. As it turned out Tom was asked to cover the largest cardiovascular conferences in Las Vegas right at the time we were set to leave Newport Beach. The timing was perfect.

Knowing we were going to travel more, we realized that Tom's good Ol' Chevy Blazer, as great as it was getting us out west, was just not going to make the 4,000+ miles we planned to travel. So, sadly we sold it to a local dealer. Of course, we then realized that all that we arrived with in California two months earlier was not going to fit into my BMW. We found ourselves once again purging stuff from our lives and packing more boxes to ship back to Tom's Mom's basement.

We took a final tour of the neighborhood that we had called home the past two months, packed up our car, and headed north east on Route 15 for Las Vegas.