Real Estate

Jim, Jacob, and I departed Houston on Saturday and headed northwest. We arrived in Denver on Sunday evening and met up with Adam, who had flown in from Detroit. We have spent the past two days hunting for apartments in northern Colorado for the new grad student. We looked at close to 20 units - some really nice and some kind of skanky - and, after all was said and done, Adam chose to sign a lease at the very first place that we had toured. It is a lovely apartment complex and Adam's unit would have a gorgeous view of the Rocky Mountains . . . if only there weren't a large tree in the way. After all of the Texas houses and Michigan condos that we have looked at over the past months, I must say that I rather enjoyed searching for real estate that will be paid for with someone else's money for a change. We intend to check out more of this college town tomorrow before leaving for Michigan later in the afternoon.

We hiked around the "Garden of the Gods" in Colorado Springs. Our shoes and socks turned completely reddish-brown from the dirt on the trails.