July 2010 Blog Posts (3)

My new hometown!

I have to say it happened more quickly than I expected. Sure, it took about 6 months, but I thought it would be years before we'd find a town good enough to call home after 9 years in the best city in the world.

But we did it! And that place is: Asheville, North Carolina.

This may not come as a shock, either to new friends on this web site due to my… Continue

Added by Anna on July 23, 2010 at 3:30pm — 6 Comments

Riding our bikes from Seattle to Portland

Seattle to Portland is sort of like a big thing here. Much more of a "thing" than I would have suspected before I moved here. The act of riding your bicycle from Seattle to Portland (roughly 205 miles) seems like a crazy fringe act. But it's not so fringe around here. It's actually popular. It's so popular that it sells out within days. And we're not talking like 500 registrations, they sell 10,000 registrations for the privilege of riding your bike for 16+ hrs over one weekend. Crazy,… Continue

Added by Adit Nathan on July 22, 2010 at 11:08am — 2 Comments

Being Sick in NYC

I drafted the post below about 6 months before I left New York, and for some reason never posted it. But I was reminded of it today, since I have a "summer cold" and am realizing how different the experience of being sick is in NYC vs. elsewhere. Since I now live in Asheville, NC (more on that later!), I'm actually doing today what I dreamed about doing then: laying on my lawn chair in the front yard, sipping my "throat coat" tea, and enjoying the glorious…

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Added by Anna on July 10, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment