Lu and I are scouting places to live this week as we travel around CT, MA and NH. Spent yesterday in New Haven, and it looks pretty darn good. We can live in a Victorian with plenty of space for less than we are paying now, and still be only a few blocks from the center of the city. Lu should have no trouble getting business for Full of Joy Yoga, and I see many possibilities for work, as well.

With Yale at its heart, New Haven has a lot of art, a lot of history and quite a few great restaurants. "Founded in 1638, New Haven could be considered to be the oldest formally planned community in the United States due to the original grid of four streets by four streets." Pretty cool. We're going back today to meet some realtors and check out a few apartments.

What is especially cool, though, is that I'm posting this from our friends' brand new coffee shop in New London, called Bean and Leaf. They built the entire interior, laid the floor and roast their own beans. It's quite impressive, and we're very excited that we'll be living only about 50 minutes away.