Ann Arbor

So right now my thoughts are somewhat occupied with our house in Ann Arbor. Given that we are living in Germany, we are obviously not living in it and have rented it out. We tried to sell it, but as luck would have it, we managed to time our departure with the end of the housing boom in the US.



This was the first house that I had ever owned, so I am pretty sentimental about it. It is also the house where Aralyn first lived when she was a baby, the house where she learned to walk, the house where we lived when Brienna did her PhD, the house where we shared a lot of wonderful moments with friends and family.

Ann Arbor was a really lovely little place to spend five years or so. I never thought that I would ever live in the Mid-West of America, but I am glad that I did. It meant that I got to explore Detroit, got to live in the American heartland and, even if vicariously, got to experience a little bit of one of America's great public universities.