The Beginning

Is it cheating to write the beginning after the fact? After pondering this for a while I decided it's not.

I started posting and emailing bits back to family and friends at home days after we left Denver. Just a couple of weeks after we got settled (and my fried computer was fixed and internet was installed) I got organized and started uploading photo albums with novels of comments. About a month later I started blogging, and after a few tries I finally landed here on Blogger and have made a fairly happy home.

So I spent a good amount of time piecing together all those random posts in all those different places and put them all onto moores go retroactively. I finally got it all finished and I realized there wasn't really any introduction, and I felt like there needed to be one. So it's actually now about three years after we started this adventure, but I'm going back to write - How did The Moores end up Going?

Travis and I have always been up for adventure, we like vacations where we see things we've never seen before, we do things we've never done before, and we eat things we've never eaten before. I lost a friend in a freak hiking accident the summer after my freshman year of college and it's changed how I look at life. I am very much a seize the moment. Yes, I'm a planner, but I am not one to put big plans on hold for anything much longer than months. Why not just do it now? (btw that's true for more than just fun travel stuff, too). I'm married to a saver, and I too believe in saving for the future, but I also believe that you need to live your life to the fullest today.

Travis and I had many serious conversations during our courtship. One was about relocating for our respective jobs. Travis was raised in a town of about 500 and spent his entire life living in the same house. I moved 8 times by the time I was 16 and then a 9th time when I was 17 and went to college in a different state than where I was living. I enjoyed growing up the way I did, some parts were hard but I got to have some great experiences. I told Travis if he ever got offered an overseas assignment and I wasn't there to discuss it, the default answer was YES and we'd figure it out.

It nearly ended up that way. Travis went to Kansas City for a business trip, called me one night, and asked if I wanted to go to Ireland in three weeks for about 9 months. We discussed, and as they say, the rest is history. Some paperwork issues delayed our departure a little bit, but we put our condo on the market and beat a VERY hasty exit from Denver nonetheless.

I'll end with a farewell to our Denver house, which we loved very much. On to the next adventure!