that trip was crazy.  i can honestly say i love riding the train, and i hate riding the bus.  the two are probably polar extremes on my list of travel options. so,  after all that and a week in pine ridge of alissa saying good-bye (which you can read about on alissa's blog) we started our long car trip back to tennessee which included a two night stop in minneapolis where we stayed with my friend kari a one night stop in decatur where we stayed with alissa's old family friends the weis' a few day rest in logan a weekend with sarah in d.c. a week in logan where i said good-bye a dinner date with my great-uncle in charleston a bought with the swine flu (yes the swine flu) and a car trip back to murfreesboro (which would look something like this if one were to put it into google maps... not that i have the time for that sort of thing these days...)  one of the weirdest things for me since i've been out of logan has been how ridiculously wide the streets are everywhere that's not logan. here's a good shot of high street, a typical two way road in logan:

odd, yes, but true. (more seriously, it was sad to leave, but i feel like this post is just for catching up, so ill save that for later.)

since we've been back, a lot has been happening.  our time has been filled to the brim with errands.  we haven't really done a full-day or even a half-day activity since we got here. everything we do takes half an hour, max.  it's a strange life. wedding planing sometimes gets stressful, not because of the wedding, but because of people's expectations of us. we'll be taking our first house-hunting, job-seeking trip to chattanooga this week, and i'm really excited about that, it makes everything seem a little closer.

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