After our first trip to Disney World together in 1999, we longed to move to Florida. Little did we know that our first interstate move, from San Francisco to Oregon, would be the first leg of the journey that would take us to Florida twice, Las Vegas twice, Oregon 3 times, and back to the SF Bay Area.
You leave a little piece of your heart in each place, so we can’t help but reminisce about some of the stops along the way, especially when we’ve owned a home.
Recently, we were remembering our first home in the NW Portland area on that first move. This is where we got our first 3 kittens (Skipper, Buddy, and Lovey) and, most recently, Shadow.
Looking up that home online, we discovered it had been sold about a year ago and the photos were still online. We saved the photos, of course, and wanted to post them here.
It was fun to see what they’d done with the townhouse since we owned it – some improvements we’d hoped to make: wood floors and grass in the backyard. They also put in bookshelves flanking the fireplace, but, unfortunately, that took away some of the living space, making for an odd layout (certainly with their furniture), combining 2 rooms into 1.
It was a great starter home for us, fresh up from the Bay Area where, like so many, we lived in a rental apartment. It was a thrill to move to a place where we could build and customize a new home, even if it was a townhouse. It was perfect for us back then.
Kathy Holmes Music 