Changes in latitude, changes in attitude

Big news: we're moving to Gloucester in two weeks! After much angsting about where we would end up when our lease ran out at the end of this month, we were fortunate enough to stumble upon this gem of an apartment on only our second day of searching proper - just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the ocean, a couple of gorgeous beaches (for which we'll have a resident parking sticker!), and one of our favorite parks on the North Shore - and jumped on it before anyone else did. Granted, driving in from the tip of Cape Anne adds about 15-20 minutes to our daily commute, but seeing that Maria and I always figured that we'd end up out that way eventually we decided to skip an intermediate step or two and see what it was like to actually live where we make a beeline to whenever we have an ounce of free time.