goodbye nevada, hello maine

actually, it should be goodbye nevada, hello maine, new hampshire, vermont, massachusetts, connecticut, new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, maryland, west virginia, virginia, tennessee, north carolina, and georgia....oh boy...

so our wonderful, beautiful house on nevada ave is SOLD by the greatest realtor in nashville, tony mckay, who doubled as the tireless renovator as well!

my two weeks notice is in, we're down to the bare necessities of belongings, money in the bank, pregnant cat at mom's, and we're ready to hike the appalachian trail!

i say we're ready, but i am realistic, and i know it is going to be the most challenging thing we have ever done. by far. i know it will be a struggle at first, but i am beyond excited about the prospect of taking a break from the normalness and sameness and venturing out into the wilderness for an adventure.

our tentative plan is to leave July 10 or 11th depending on travel arrangements! we are going north to south and hope we make it back before winter in the smokies!!

see that guy at the bottom, yeah we're doing him the first day....ahhh!! that is a scream not a relaxing ahhh!! (picture courtesy of summitpost.org)

my goal is to blog when we i have access to cell service and/or internet. we would love for anyone to follow us on our journey and hopefully encourage us along!

go chase waterfalls

on our way back from Johnson city where we watched our beautiful friends adrian and jasmine get married, we made an impromptu stop at burgess falls state park.

let me just tell you, the approximately 1.5 mile round trip hike to the waterfall was totally worth it. it is a tiny bit strenuous but amazing! these pictures were taken at the base of the 136' lower falls, the biggest of the four beautiful waterfalls.

who knew that middle Tennessee had such a masterpiece!

tent life

tony surprised me with a trip to the beach. he showed up after I got off
work and had the car packed and ready to go!


but...my friend Joana had called me two minutes earlier saying she was in labor! after much convincing, we stayed in Nashville until that night after sweet Jennah made her dramatic appearance.....

so! we left at 330am and got there with plenty of time to enjoy some beach time!

we stayed in Santa Rosa Beach in a tent. at the Top Sail Park. we love camping and we love the beach, so it was a perfect trip for us.

obstacles we encountered: rain, fire ants, roaches, "sand gerbil" (rat), heat, melting ice, sleeping on a blow up pool float, desire to move to florida every single second.

in Alabama on the way back, my grandma said "y'all are the only people I know who can't relax on vacation!" true, we may not have had an ocean view hotel room with air conditioning or even a bed but we had each other, we had the sun, our campfire, the ocean.

livin on love. and tony has a ponytail.
and we are in love with this trailer by the ocean. ok peace out.

house

my sweet husband has been working tirelessly on the house for months and months. the outside is looking pretty good, and the inside is just about done too!

also. if you'll notice, it is almost completely empty. i woke up the other day to tony telling me we were having a yard sale. so i look at the window, and there was a sizable crowd in our yard looking at our stuff.

now, a normal person would have freaked out. but all these hoarder shows and people with houses full of stuff they never use has made me into the anti-hoarder. i literally gathered up everything that we could possibly sell. down to the couches and our tv and our sugar and flour containers. thus, the empty house pictures.

we almost had a yard fight when this old lady was trying to buy a mirror that had already been sold. and i almost had a panic attack when another old lady asked if we had any trinkets for sale. I HATE TRINKETS!

anyways, that being said, we have had one old guy in a Lexus, one cute couple, a girl and her mom, a rich guys daughter, and a real old fashioned realtor showing on our house. and it's not even on the market. nor does it have bathrooms. or kitchen countertops.

we are so close to being done and going on an adventure, we can hardly stand it!

i hate wordy blogs, so i'm stopping now!