the eagle has landed.

I am finally writing from HENDERSON SETTLEMENT! Hooray!

We arrived this afternoon and promptly unloaded our full, full, full car. I have to say, though, that I'm quite proud of the car. Even loaded down (as you can see in the pictures below--check out how low the back is riding), it still got 34 miles to the gallon!

So. Like I was saying, we unloaded our car into our new apartment. It's not the Zoochi House, like we were originally expecting--it's above the administrative offices, and it's bigger than the Zoochi apartment--bigger than our apartment in NEPA!

Here are some pictures of the apartment:

the living room

the dinette

our bedroom - please note the quilt made of polyester fabrics.

Oh. And we found these random things among the supplies in the apartment, too:

we're on our way

Off we go!

We left from my parents' house around 7:30 this morning, our car laden and riding low from all of the stuff that we packed into it. (Pictures of that will be posted at some point--don't worry!)

We'd already decided that we were going to do the trip in two days, so we weren't rushing, and we took my dad's suggestion to travel along part of the Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park. It's beautiful--I would recommend it to anyone who's got some extra time to mosey through Virginia. We stopped at the Byrd Visitor Center and learned a little bit about how the Civilian Conservation Corps helped build this and other national parks.

Plus, I got to see my CCC boyfriend, Iron Mike.
Right now I'm typing from a motel just south of Roanoke, Virginia, where we've stopped for the night. We're going to leave early-ish tomorrow morning, and hopefully we'll be in Frakes by the middle of the day. I'm not sure what our internet situation will be right away, but you can be sure that we'll let y'all know as soon as we figure it out!

It's still not feeling real to me yet that we're going to be in Kentucky for a year. I realized the other day that we're going to have to go through that whole new-job-where-you-have-to-learn-how-everything-works transition time--I haven't done that in a few years. Other than that, we've been too busy for me to obsess about how things are going to be....actually, that's probably a good thing, since I haven't been getting anxious about it!

So. If our internet is as easy as we hope in Frakes, we'll be able to have some Henderson Settlement pictures up soon!