For the longest time Lee & I were talking about relocating up to Washington or Oregon. The plan was for me to find a job up there, where we'd eventually retire. The pipe dream was (and still is) to wind up eventually on Whidbey or Bainbridge islands, or near Pt. Townsend.

Anyhow, I was routinely scanning the ads for biotech companies up around Seattle & Portland, and a couple of years ago I found it, a job with my name written all over it. I was so thrilled!

But I was starting to pull up my resume when it dawned on me ... I didn't want to move!

You see, by then we had started cycling, and we were coming to realize that we live in a great area for it, and our home is ideally situated. We're able to head out directly from home to all sorts of great locations in the East Bay, we can ride across the nearby bridge to the San Francisco peninsula and all the great riding out there, and we're not much of a drive to the wonderful cycling in Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Santa Cruz & Monterey ...

I talked it over with Lee and he said he wasn't in a hurry to move either now that we're enjoying cycling so much, so here we remain, for the time being. Maybe in a few years we'll move north, but, not right now.