What’s $100 Worth in California vs Wisconsin?

  Taxfoundation.org released this map showing the relative value of $100 across the United States. To paraphrase the article:  Average prices for similar goods are much higher in California than in Wisconsin, so the same amount of dollars will buy you comparatively less out here. The difference from Wisco to Cali? About $19. Damn!

One Month Until We’re Back in Wisco

A month from now we’ll be taking our first trip back to Wisconsin since moving out to California. We’re visiting in August, so hopefully the weather won’t be too much of a shock. (It’ll be the weather during the winter holiday visit that we’ll have to watch out for.) We haven’t seen rain in months, so

Road Trip to Cali: Day One

On Friday, we said goodbye to our lovely 2-bed, 2-bath on East River Dr in favor of crashing at my parents’ place, where there was still a real bed (the movers came for our stuff on Wednesday and we couldn’t face another night on the air mattress). We headed out to the Lorelei for a