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The following were "Life is Good" emails we sent our family and friends to keep them up to date on our temporary dropping out phase before we got too old (mid 2000 - mid 2001). I will post the others periodically in this same thread. Hope you enjoy.
1st Edition:
Gone Walkabout. . .
Hello all: Well, Dave finally rubbed off on Di and now we’ve both quit our jobs! Yes, it’s true. After 14 years in Silicon Valley, we decided to run like hell. While a beautiful place where we have lots of friends, the traffic, cost of living, and general rat race in San Jose caught up to us. We decided life is too short. So we sold our house, quit our jobs and are taking a year off.
The Short Term Plan : After two months of traveling from San Jose to Colorado to Michigan to San Diego to visit family and friends, we’re taking off on Tuesday, November 28th for Sydney, Australia. There we will rent an apartment for six months, enjoy life down under, and take a few side trips (New Zealand, Great Barrier Reef, Asia, Ayers Rock. . .). The plan is to have six months of rest and relaxation with a little sight seeing thrown in.
The Long Term Plan: We are relocating to Fort Collins, Colorado (where Di has an uncle and cousin), which is a college town one hour north of Denver and a little less than an hour from Estes Park. Ft. Collins has a great old style downtown, fairly low cost of living, is the home of Colorado State University, and (hopefully) has lots of job opportunities for both of us. We bought a house there, which we are renting back to the sellers until next summer. Then we will get back to reality and work and live, ideally at a slightly slower pace. We know, it snows in Colorado. We think we’re ready but that's easy to say when we’re about to experience a year of summer! CHECK WITH US ON THE SNOW THING LATER!!!
Anyway, for now we have no mailing address where we will regularly be receiving mail so please do not send anything to our old San Jose address. Our email address is *******, please use it to communicate with us and let us know your email address so we can send you further editions of “Life is Good.” Once we have a mailing address in Sydney, we will forward it to you. If for some reason you need a phone number for us, you can call Di’s sister, Kathy.
Cheers, Diane and Dave Gross
1st Edition:
Gone Walkabout. . .
Hello all: Well, Dave finally rubbed off on Di and now we’ve both quit our jobs! Yes, it’s true. After 14 years in Silicon Valley, we decided to run like hell. While a beautiful place where we have lots of friends, the traffic, cost of living, and general rat race in San Jose caught up to us. We decided life is too short. So we sold our house, quit our jobs and are taking a year off.
The Short Term Plan : After two months of traveling from San Jose to Colorado to Michigan to San Diego to visit family and friends, we’re taking off on Tuesday, November 28th for Sydney, Australia. There we will rent an apartment for six months, enjoy life down under, and take a few side trips (New Zealand, Great Barrier Reef, Asia, Ayers Rock. . .). The plan is to have six months of rest and relaxation with a little sight seeing thrown in.
The Long Term Plan: We are relocating to Fort Collins, Colorado (where Di has an uncle and cousin), which is a college town one hour north of Denver and a little less than an hour from Estes Park. Ft. Collins has a great old style downtown, fairly low cost of living, is the home of Colorado State University, and (hopefully) has lots of job opportunities for both of us. We bought a house there, which we are renting back to the sellers until next summer. Then we will get back to reality and work and live, ideally at a slightly slower pace. We know, it snows in Colorado. We think we’re ready but that's easy to say when we’re about to experience a year of summer! CHECK WITH US ON THE SNOW THING LATER!!!
Anyway, for now we have no mailing address where we will regularly be receiving mail so please do not send anything to our old San Jose address. Our email address is *******, please use it to communicate with us and let us know your email address so we can send you further editions of “Life is Good.” Once we have a mailing address in Sydney, we will forward it to you. If for some reason you need a phone number for us, you can call Di’s sister, Kathy.
Cheers, Diane and Dave Gross
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