Return to Jersey - the Prequel

OK, it's been 15 years since I have called the Garden State my home, but I am about to do what some say is the unthinkable -- move back to New Jersey! After living in sunny Southern California for a loooooong time, it's time to go back where the air is clean (no kidding!) and the trees are green and don't need to be irrigated. Even my parents, who are pretty much life-long residents of Central New Jersey, say "Maybe it's a mistake!" My dear husband has decided to give the adventure a whirl. He is Canadian and there is no way anything in the Lower 48 can compare to the horror that he has experienced as Winter.

A few items still stand in the way of my return, namely the close of an escrow (which will forever remove me from our little house in a nameless and faceless California housing development) and a drive across the country. Things should come to a head on March 8th so we shall see.....