High-Miles September So Far

Wow, you would not believe how quickly the last 3 weeks have gone!

I am sure that is in part to the time we spend on the road each day, but still… I am still trying to get used to the idea that fall is coming.

I don’t know what all to cover, so I will just give some snap-shots of life in Atlantic.

We have *LOVED* being able to just roll our bikes outside! It may sound trivial, but not having to carry them down three flights of stairs makes the idea of a quick little evening ride so much less imposing. Also, living in a neighborhood makes rides a lot nicer. We have really enjoyed getting to explore Atlantic on bicycles.

The drive every day is tiring, but I think Heather and I have both found ways to make it easier. Heather has a whole stack of books on “tape” (CD) and I picked up a Zune, and have it loaded up with podcasts. Those things may not be our first choice of a way to use time, but at least you get to feel like you are doing something instead of just wasting your life driving and listening to top 40 radio.  I might throw up some of the better podcasts, once I have figured out what I like… There is an overwhelming selection out there.

News as of today is that Heather and I may have found a church we like in Atlantic. We visited one three weeks ago and it just wasn’t somewhere we wanted to be going. Two weeks ago we drove to Des Moines, and liked the Vineyard we checked out there. Unfortunately the fatigue from driving yet another day was pretty substantial, and we decided we just couldn’t do that on our day of rest. Today we tried another church in Atlantic (There are a lot of them here, sometimes using annoyingly similar names) and I think it is going to be a good place for us while we are here.

In more “wow time is going fast” news I had to renew the web-hosting for this site. I paid for a year when I started the site not too long after Heather and I were engaged. I was kind of surprised to have that come due again already.

-Jordan