Beginnings...

I now officially feel like I have entered into the digital age by starting this blog. It’s not to say that I am a technophobe or anything like that, but maybe a little of a traditionalist at heart. This month I even took out a pen and paper and wrote a letter to my brother via snail mail. I regularly keep a journal, but let’s face it - no one is EVER going to read that!

It has been nearly 10 months since I moved to California from a sleepy little part of Berkshire in the UK. I have done a terrible job of adhering to my promise of keeping people informed of what I am up to and where I have been, relying on random Facebook updates and check-ins that I or someone I am with has posted. I don’t tweet. And recently, unless it is work related, I haven’t been emailing either. So in an attempt to honour my promise, I have started this blog to track the random adventures that I have stumbled upon be them big or small.

Granted that I am probably about 11 months late in starting this, but better late than never right? So let me rewind to that 11 month mark. I had just taken the plunge and signed a contract with my work to relocate to California. I never thought that I would be someone who could just pack up everything and go and live abroad so far from friends and family. 2011 for me, was a year that I would not wish on anyone, so when I stumbled upon the opportunity to start 2012 with the biggest adventure of my life, I jumped on it, threw it to the ground and secured it with a pin – aiki-stlye!

By the end of January I had my Visa and by the end of February I was gone, or rather, I had arrived. My New location is Laguna Beach in California, in a small condo (it’s not called a flat out here) which reminds me of an oversized beach-hut, like the ones that I remember growing up in Lyme Regis, which is a whole three minute walk from the ocean (it’s not called the sea out here either). Since I have taken the plunge, there have been an endless flow of new things and discoveries that I would like to share – it has been a year packed full of stumbled upon adventures!