A Move Begins

A move across the country begins with obsessive planning. Every day, it begins with checking the classifieds; with bookmarking employment links on the websites of every local business, school, and organization; with scrolling through pages of rental lists; with Google street-viewing your way through town; with calculating the cost of a moving truck, of first month’s rent, of a security deposit, of gas, of hotels, of food, of distance.

But first, it begins with Joe getting a teaching assistantship at Eastern Washington University.