{"id":56,"date":"2009-07-19T17:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T23:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2014-08-07T05:10:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T11:10:39","slug":"settling-into-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/settling-into-pa\/","title":{"rendered":"Settling into PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pa-home.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"pa_home\" border=\"0\" alt=\"pa_home\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/pa-home-thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Well here we are. Who knew that we would find a place in so short a time, all of three days after arriving in Wilkes-Barre!<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been very busy these first days, now all of 1.5 weeks into our relocation, we have in a very short span managed to do a lot of things\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Drove 1760 miles from Austin to Wilkes-Barre in 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>Found and setup camp at Moon Lake County Park.<\/p>\n<p>Found a mail drop to make our new mailing address.<\/p>\n<p>Found a new bank to make our home bank and setup accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Lightly scoured the countryside, and in the end found a cute apartment to rent, less than 3 miles from work. Sweet. Minimum commute time last week was 10 minutes, max 17. We\u2019ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Started working at both our respective jobs.<\/p>\n<p>We have met over half the occupants of our apartment building and they\u2019re all cool people so far, 3 out of four apartments have one or more cats so how bad CAN they be?<\/p>\n<p>Painted the bathroom in the apartment.<\/p>\n<p>Started cycling, both road and dirt, both of us (each to our own levels).<\/p>\n<p>We both seem to be making good connections with people at our respective workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve even started to make connections in the local cycling scene &#8211; I hesitate to say friends yet, it\u2019s too early, but signs are good.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So, things are looking pretty dang good if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>Now if only paychecks would start moving, that\u2019d de-stress us both quite a bit.<\/p>\n<p>We are terribly missing our Austin friends, make no mistake. We are NOT missing the Austin weather, temperatures from 50-80 with a vibrant and healthy landscape are MUCH more to both our likings. I\u2019m still working on finding \u201cthose\u201d trails, as the public samplings I\u2019ve had so far are good, but I hope to be only the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well here we are. Who knew that we would find a place in so short a time, all of three days after arriving in Wilkes-Barre! We\u2019ve been very busy these first days, now all of 1.5 weeks into our relocation, we have in a very short span managed to do a lot of things\u2026 Drove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11,13,10,12],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-adventure","tag-pennsylvania","tag-relocation","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bearandwife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}