So we are 4 and a half months in to our ‘Voyage of Discovery’.  Things have gotten much smoother now. The first month or so was pretty rough. Mark almost didn’t make it on the plane! I won’t forget the first time I got out of the shower on a cold morning, or when I sat down on the porcelain toilet seat to drop a load, I seriously contemplated whether or not I could handle it out here. It’s not that I have not experienced cold before, it’s just you tend to forget what it’s like living in Hawaii. Mark and I shared a room, for the first couple months, at my dad’s apartment in Richmond Beach, Shoreline. (It was like having a brother all over again!) We spent most days and nights trying to block out the depression of having moved from the most beautiful place in the world, leaving friends, family, and girlfriends behind. We did things like shooting pool, playing music, and drinking ‘Mass’ (Seattle term for ‘choke’) amounts of beer. Once Mark moved to Belltown, I had my room all to myself, at which point I quickly set up my acoustic kit.

     We’ve made some good friends since we moved here. Alex Karchevsky is an old-school regular in the Seattle Rock and Roll scene. He was the front man for ‘Murdock’, and is about to front a new conglomoration of Seattle musicians to be called ‘Over the Eight’. Our upstairs neighbor is a chellowist for a very talented group called ‘Reed’. Of course we are kicking it with ‘Out from Underneath’, a great Seattle rock band that we met when they were on tour. 

So, Everytime someone asks me “WHY WOULD YOU LEAVE HAWAII TO COME HERE?!! I  just keep reminding myself that when you have a dream, you have to give it all you got.

Justin~

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