It’s hard to believe we’re on the road again. Especially after our 37,000-mile journey just weeks ago. Classic country icon Willie Nelson once sang:

On the road again
Goin’ places that I’ve never been
Seein’ things that I may never see again,
And I can’t wait to get on the road again.

My wife and I have decided to leave our beloved home in Charleston for the foothills of the Rocky Mountains — Boulder Colorado. It’s with much excitement we embark on this journey, indeed it’s a brand-new chapter in our lives. Reading this, you might be wondering why I’d leave my post as “UI guy” at SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston. I’ve wondered myself. After all, it is a good job and the office is full of good people. But I’m ready for a change. And my wife, Jude, is ready, too.

I was fortunate during my super-short job search — which lasted only 5 days — I didn’t actually have to do all that much. I loaded up Word, updated myself on paper, saved as a PDF, and hit AuthenticJobs.com to see what was out there. When I was writing a short note to a company in Boulder with my resume attached, I hadn’t any idea just a few days later I’d be sitting in a room with a mountain view listening to a man offer me a new job. What’s funnier is it took my wife and I only a day or so to accept the position and to start readying to uproot our lives.

I start as the newest member of the design and development team at Wall Street On Demand in early July.

So we leave for Boulder early next week. We’ll go this way (see map), camping in off-the-beaten-path locations in the mountains and in the plains. We can’t wait.

See you on the other side. For now, we say au revoir — but not goodbye — to Charleston. We will be back.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 at 9 am and is filed under charleston, family, jude and mark, life, travel, work.