Dave & Alisha: Looking for a place to live

Monday, May 5, 2014

Looking for a place to live

Alisha says: Our blog has really just turned into a travel log. Good thing I love to travel and explore new places. Our latest trip also had a purpose, we took a trip out to Seattle to check out the area and look for a place to rent. We are going to rent and Dave has been looking for months online at places. It seemed like once in a while something would come up that really interested him and then within a few days it was gone. The week before our visit Dave found a house that interested him so he quickly emailed the owner and set up an appointment. We had a few others that we wanted to also check out while we were there.

In order to get more a feel for the area we rented a condo in a cute neighborhood that turned out to be great. Luckily the weather was really nice most of the time we were there and we did a lot of exploring. We drove around countless neighborhoods and parks, went on two awesome 8+ mile hikes (Mt. Si and Solitude Lake), rode cruiser bikes for 50 miles on the Burke-Gilman trail, attended some meetings at the University, watched some rowing races and boat parade and ate at some really great places. We discovered our new favorite place to eat called Veggie Grill and ate there three times during our visit.

We ended up liking the place that we were most interested in and our lease starts in June. It is a small house that is three stories, so small and tall. It is in a great location, close to the University, bike path, shopping and a few parks. Seattle will be a big change for us, some things will be better and others not so much (traffic is crazy!)

Now we are back and things are starting to get real! I picked up a bunch of boxes yesterday and am starting to box stuff up. We have one more trip and when we get back from that we will be in full on moving mode.