This new job opportunity in my home town is really appealing. I just checked the commute from my childhood neighborhood that I loved, and it's only 20 minutes away! I can afford homes in my old neighborhood, too. I'd be able to see my childhood family and their kids much more. I could be apart of their lives. I would not be the missing sibling/aunt/daughter that is always blessed at Thanksgiving despite my absence with the hopes that I will return to the fold.
The thought of the endless bike trail that runs along the American River being at my back door put a smile on my face. Just having the American River at my back door would be awesome! I could kayak on it there, since it slows down in that section. I rafted down that river since grade school and know every turn it makes in Sacramento and how to read its ever-changing current. What heaven I'd be in! I'd just have to get used to the hot summers that get about 113 degrees F. I could vacation then to avoid the heat. ;-)
If I went biking and launched my kayak along the American River again, I would have to have more self defense training. I can't imagine the trails are any safer with all that brush in which the rapists use to hide. I'll never forget the story when one would-be rapist stuck a stick into the spokes of a female bicyclist and made her fall. She and her female friend that was riding with her beat the man up with their tire pumps! I love that story!
Now all I have to do is get that math teaching job!
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