We have reservations for houses in Mammoth, Vegas, Moab, Sedona, and back to Vegas in May!  This trip is really happening!  In between each vacation rental we will do 3-4 nights of camping in various national parks.

Some people have asked what this trip is all about, so here are some details.  Robert gets a sabbatical this year, after getting tenure last year (yay!) so he can take a few months off.  I have taken off the month of April and squashed my shifts in March and May so that I have almost 2 months off as well.  After much discussion we decided to spend the time on a road trip of the Southwest.

This all happened to coincide with wanting to get a bigger house with more bedrooms, and it's a great market right now for sellers in Santa Monica, so we put the house on the market in February and had offers within days!  Escrow is supposed to close (i.e. the final sale) on March 21st, 2 days before we head out to Mammoth for a few days of skiing. 

So in the next 2 weeks we have to pack for our trip, put all our stuff in storage, sell our house, and do some repairs requested by the buyer. Stay tuned for more updates!