The Adventures Of Tom Bissell
Posted in Blogs on Wednesday 08 April 2009 07:37pm
We’re all moved in. Almost everything’s put away. It’s starting to feel cozy. First impression: Manteca is Hayward. I see the same people, the same downtown, the same good side of town and bad side of town. Except Manteca is 40 degrees hotter than Hayward in the summer. And Manteca is stupid cheap–rent, food, gas–everything [...]
I think it means beef fat in Spanish. And that’s where we’re moving to. Manteca. The city of beef fat! It’s been a year in Vacaville. It’s been nice. I didn’t really get a good feel for it. It was too much like suburbia to me. Caught in the middle between Sacramento and the Bayarrhea. [...]
Posted in AdventuresWithYum on Sunday 08 March 2009 12:10pm
Four days in Truckee was good for the soul. We sat near the fireplace and watched the snow fall quietly. Yum fed all our food to the neighborhood doggies. I took Yum for a nice long walk in a snowstorm. Tuesday night was our last night and I wanted a nice dinner. Well, and I [...]
Posted in Blogs on Friday 06 February 2009 12:12am
Last year when we decided to move to Vacaville we thought we had a solid plan. Keep our jobs in Concord, live in Vacaville, use 2008 to find jobs in Sacramento, then leapfrog Sacramento and find a place to live in Auburn or Placerville. Bullet-proof. We didn’t count on the economy turning on us. So [...]
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The Adventures Of Tom Bissell
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