So, I have had Vermont on the brain since....well, since 1987. See, I had a magical 7 years there when I was aged 7-14. But I didn't appreciate it. At all. Even though I was a skiing, fishing, hiking, swimming, boating, skating machine, all I could think about was how glamorous places like New York were.
In 1987 I got my wish and we moved to within an hour's train ride from New York. It sucked. It sucked so hard. There was no more skiing Saturday and Sunday every w
eekend. There was no more skiing, period. I went to Mt. Washington a couple times after the move, but it wasn't the same as being within a two-hour drive. Swimming was at the YMCA indoor pool, not at Bartlett Falls (pictured). Skating, the same - indoors on well-groomed rinks. Boating was Long Island Sound which was full of yahoos with coolers of beer and very little common sense.
A few years ago, I realized that I could move back to Vermont any time I wanted. I'm an adult now. I have a little property and a decent skill set career-wise. Vermont has a good economy and plenty of up-and-coming small companies to work for, not to mention the myriad universities and tourism-oriented businesses.
Now I'm plunging headlong into actually making the move happen. In the next year or two, I will be doing some home improvements (mainly throwing away a ton of shit), getting my place on the market, looking for a place in VT, and looking for work up there.
This is the most scary and thrilling thing I have ever done. I want to make it happen NOW, but planning and execution are key.
Stay tuned for Step 1 in my journey....cleaning and getting the condo ready for sale....
8 comments:
Do it!!!!!!
Come home! Come home!
(I love the name of your blog - my parents actually live on the lake, just down the road from Keeler Bay Grocery.....) if you need a place to land when you're looking around up here, consider our place as home base.
Thanks Jenn! I remember going out to Stephanie Velasquez's camp out there, and of course Hochelaga is out that way. Maybe I shoudl look for property on South Hero :)
And you know you are always welcome at ma & pa cupcake's! I hope to get back there too... but I don't have the plan yet.
Go for it - I'm a firm believer that moving is good for you at least once a decade. ;-)
GO FOR IT!!!
Vermont rules ....way better than
Maine.
"SeeeaaaaaN?!"
Gawd-damit!
Go for it Kristen Steingrandt. If I can do it, so can you.
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