It Begins

Hi All ---Pete Here
So we are here, in the land of Haggis, Rain, and rolling R's. Those of you who are new to this or who haven't heard what Jess and I have been up to for the last three months I will start at the beginning of the adventure.

Phase 1......Departing Buffalo
We left Buffalo after graduation to move to the Quad Cities in Iowa. With newly conferred Master's degrees in hand we went on to live the post grad dream for the summer by moving in with my parents and borrowing a car from Jess' parents. It was awesome. The summer was good. Jess and I got to play with my parents house renovations--they are turning out quite well. Jess had a retail job in Davenport at a Kitchens store, so we had some money. That all came to an end on the 23rd of August as we repacked the essentials and left my parents with a gigantic pile of our things to "store/or lose to act of god" depending on the fine print of the homeowners policy.

Phase 2.......XCountry
We drove in a rental car from Davenport to Buffalo to New York City. All in a course of two days. It wasn't that bad, but somehow the design of the Holland Tunnel seems flawed, seriously 12 damn toll lanes for a two lane tunnel. We made the drive with no problems other than a new respect for the width of New York State. Thank you very much to Jay and Albert and Gaelen and Anand for the places to crash. Sorry for all of the people we didn't have time to see, we were on a tight schedule with the dog in tow.

Phase 3......."Brandy!!!!! you're a fine Girl"
Jess, Chase and I made the trip to the UK via ocean liner. In a way sailing past the Statue of Liberty on the way out was like some perverse reverse immigration thing. We, all three of us (Chase being the third) got on in Brooklyn to sail to Southampton on board the Cunard Line's Queen Mary 2. The crossing deserves a post in and of itself as so many crazy and wonderful things went on... from a Canadian Coast Guard Helicopter to a man named George. (That post will be post number 2) After 6 days of amazing luxury and the occasional gale, we arrived safely in the UK, cleared customs and drove for 8 or 9 hours to Glasgow.

Phase 4......Gles-ca

Jess, Chase and I have been living in the Holiday Inn Express city centre, or Merchant City Neighborhood as we attempt to get moved in. Tomorrow AM we will be opening a bank account, on Monday if everything goes well we will be moving into our flat which is across the street. And a few days ago we got our first cell phone. We will get another phone in a week or so as we become more familiar with what is available.

That pretty much sums up everything. When I get around to it I will post many more photos on here and on facebook and put up a post about the crossing. Jess will likely also put up a few posts as time goes on.

Till next time,
Cheers
PR