Friday, November 3

[tahitijack]

Its raining in my hometown, Kirkland, WA. The leaves have changed color to red, yellow and orange and are falling from the trees. Winter is moving in bringing a chill to mornings and evenings. My wife and I are on lunch brake as we work from home today. Soup and grilled cheese sandwitches with hot tea. We were talking about how celebrate our first year in the Seattle Metro later this month. Since we moved from Laguna Beach, CA last November its taken almost a year to find and get back to playing with other guitarists. I'm now playing some blues on Thursday evenings with my accountant and Surf Music on Saturdays with a pilot that flies corporate aircraft for a Seattle corporation and I'm enjoying it. Right now both situations are just for fun but I can see that down the road we'll be looking to play out.

Has anyone here relocated and had to reestablish themselves in their new hometown. How did you do it? How long did it take? How did you get some traction? Where did you find your playing partners or bandmates?

As John Lennon said "Its just like starting over"

[EscalonJon]

Hey TahitiJack,

Reading your post, I flashed back to that suckie feeling I had when I moved to where I'm at now. I moved from Anaheim to the CA central valley in '91. I thought I was doing the right thing for my kids, getting them to a better place to grow up. The first Fall/Winter that first year was the worst for tule fog in 20 years, so the locals were saying. It would be foggy (<50' visibility) from the time I got out of bed till evening time for 5,6,7 days in a row sometimes. I thought our SoCal June Gloom was bad... My wife and I were so despondant. I found my self continuously thinking "why in the He77 did I move here?" Anyway, I felt like that for a couple of years, even after meeting several sets of friends. To make things worse, I moved into a tiny town that was socially very "clicky", if your great, great, great, great grandparents didn't grow up here, you weren't fit to show your face...sounds pretty bad, huh? Eventually that all changed and now I can honestly say that I wouldn't have done it any other way. Just keep your head up, what you are going thru is normal. You and your wife can comfort eachother in the fact that you will settle in together and it will get much, much, better. Best of luck up there, I know both places very well, and they are VERY different.

[tahitijack]

Thanks Jon

I know the Central Valley. Back in the day I was stationed at Castle AFB near Atwater...most folks say where is that? I often subsitute Merced. Where is that? I say its North of Fesno. Oh! Yikes! Been to Lodi, Stockton, Madera, Modesto, Los Banos, Firebaugh and all the other little valley towns. Drove from Fresno to Atwater in tule fog at about 10 mph more times than I care to remember.

We like it here and have met and become friends with a lot of good folks.

[EscalonJon]

I was at Castle as well '70-73, B-52 Flt Sim. That's not why I chose to move here, though. My family had migrated to the Sierra Foothils from the Auburn area down to the Jackson/San Andreas area. I wanted to be close to them (about 60 miles), but the Modesto area was the only place I could transfer to with my job. Anyway, best of luck to you, you'll look back in a couple of years and will be pleased. I'll pray that you do...

[tahitijack]

Small world I was at Castle 1970-71. Field Maintenance (FMS).