Have you ever gone on a long journey with someone. You get to know things about them, get to know their little quirks. You stop being people in a car, and start being traveling companions. For the last 11 months I have been on a journey. I have ridden along with 13 other people. We have become more than people in a house, we have become companions. Our journey has now come to an end.

Over the last year, I have had the good fortune to live with some of the most amazing people. They came here from all over the country, gave up the chance to get jobs that would make them lots of money to work for almost nothing, and worked harder than anyone I have ever met. They were funny, smart, and interesting. They made me happy, sad, perplexed, angry, intrigued, and a million more emotions. They held me up when I needed it, and pushed me along when I was reluctant.

Now like an explosion we are once again scattering to the winds. We met as strangers, and are leaving as family. I will miss all thirteen of my house mates and wish them all well on their journeys. Remember you always have a place on my couch, as soon as I get one :)

I too am on a journey. For the last three years I have been living and working on Cape Cod. It is a strange and wonderful place full of old rich people, hard working poor people, college students during the summer, shellfish, coyotes, and a whole host of other interesting things. I still remember the first time I looked out at the ocean and realized just how far I was from the corn fields of my childhood.

I am leaving all that behind for Boston. The big city, or rather, a big city. This will not be the first time I have lived in a big city, it will however be the first time I have ever lived in such a dense and old city. I am used to the mid-western sprawl. I wonder how I will adjust to the maddening road layout, or the noise. I have missed the diversity, the culture, heck something to do after 9 pm during a weekday that a big city provides.

Besides losing all my house mates and moving to Boston, perhaps the most important fact is that Tess is coming back from China on Wednesday!!!!! Words can not describe how happy this makes me, I just hope she is not too jet lagged for a giant bear hug.