Originally from Upstate New York, though neither of us were actually born there, we spent our early adolescent lives in and around the town of Germantown in the middle of the Hudson Valley. Directly across from the Catskill Mountains, we enjoyed the bucolic life afforded to us by its quaint pastoral charm. It is easy to see now and then why Frederick Church loved to paint there so much. But the incessant cold, life’s pressures and opportunity knocked and we listened…
In the middle 1990’s we moved from New York to start a new life in North Carolina. Within two years we found the warmth, countless days of sunshine and brief winters inviting and spread our roots as wide as necessary for our young family to thrive. While there we enjoyed frequent breaks from the monotony of work and school by either traveling to the beautiful Atlantic coast, or to other natural or commercial points of interests that beckon young families to visit, including the Biltmore Estate and the gorgeous North Carolina Mountains!
As the children began to go to college we found our desire to live elsewhere, in particular in Europe, return. After totally downsizing our lives, selling our house and otherwise toning down our lives completely, we finally decided to retire in March of 2019.
After taking a one month vacation, September/October of 2018, in the northern part of Italy, we decided on the quaint but busy city of Turin. It is with the ever present compunction to travel and adventure that we have decided to retire here and as an adjunct to that write this journal of our new life and experiences.