I am no longer Director of Application Development at TheLadders.Com. After almost 3 good years, it's time to move on. And, of course, I was sure to exercise my stock options. I learned about Product Management, I learned technology and development process, and made lots of connections. A worthwhile way to spend those years. But now I have other plans.
For starters, Milk & Cookies is already sold. The lease on our apartment ends in November and we're selling all our stuff on craigslist and ebay. Clearly, a move is in the works. My wife, daughter and I are relocating to the West Coast. I expect to be in San Francisco by the end of November.
We're making an adventure out of it. Packing our car and taking two weeks for a road trip across country. The line up of cities in our tour: Youngstown, Chicago, Des Moines, Lexington, Boulder, Denver, Santa Fe, Sedona, Los Angeles and finally San Francisco. We'll be seeing some family along the way... Thanksgiving in Sedona works out particularly well. We haven't found an apartment in San Francisco, yet, but we don't know the town well enough to want to lock into a lease now. We'll probably find a sublet or extended stay hotel for a month when we first get out there so we can spend some time choosing the right place.
I imagine this will be a vacation like no other. Imagine a trip with no responsibilities: no mortgage, no lease, no job to worry about. Just you, your family and light possessions. A minimal plan, so you can stay and go as you please at your own schedule. I can't tell you how much we're looking forward to it.
Google Maps, by the way, has been a great tool to help plan the trip. After choosing the start and end destination, it finds a route for you. You can then add additional stops along the way, and Google will reconfigure the route to take you through those stops. There's also a great feature where you can drag a leg of the route on the map, to re-route you along a different path. I like to think of it as "thoughtful" functionality.
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