ARE WE THERE YET?

We arrived in Cleveland on Wednesday morning, after about 22 hours of driving, eating and other stops. We drove 1437 miles!

We are now staying at our temporary destination, where we get to enjoy not only the top floor, that we reserved and paid for, but the whole rest of the house which is currently empty. Eliott is sleeping in the "man-cave" i.e. basement, and Betty and I are on the top floor. We have found a grocery store and several coffee shops nearby, as well as a little diner that looks promising.



Today we did a little tour with our realtor, Susanne. We saw several neighbourhoods that would work. Then we went into the school for a little reality check - before I can contemplate purchasing a home I need to feel like we are going to live, work etc... here, which is not quite the case yet. I have no idea how we made it there by car; most of the time I had no clue where we were, so we just haphazardly headed in what we thought was the right direction until we came across something we recognised. It's a weird feeling - I think that several times we went very close to the school but as we couldn't see the school itself, I had no clue.



Our next stop - have you guessed - was a bookstore to get a street map!

Armed with that I felt like we could conquer the world (starting with zip code 44118).

Now we are anticipating going out to dinner with a mother and senior from school; we also met a Mexican family whose daughter Marina (16) is moving here for the High School, and I have 2 contacts from friends in Austin who know people here. We're on the way to making friends!



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We miss you all!

Love,
FranEliBet