Five Years

Five years ago today, we landed in New York, fresh from 2948 miles of driving with Allo on the dashboard of our Ryder truck. Our broker described the popularity of pot-belly pigs as pets; our Russian movers broke our toilet, briefly traumatizing our cat; our bank teller told us that "there are 8 million stories in this city, and all of them are complicated." Our story, though, isn't that complicated: we came here unsure of so many things---and, really, not a day has gone by since that we haven't, even in the most unpleasant of circumstances, been glad we did.