When we got married I moved to the area my husband grew up. It is only about 45 minutes from where I grew up but I don't know the area, AT ALL! I have been trying to learn the area but I work near where I grew up so generally I'll just do what I need to do at lunch. This weekend the hubs and I were going on a grocery trip (Aldi's, Whole Foods and Shoprite) two of the three stores were about 45 minutes away from us. On the way I had the hubs check on his Blackberry to see if there was an Aldi closer to us and there was! We ended up going there then to a smaller local health food store, then to my Shoprite (yes its mine); the three stores were right in a line and it only took about 15 minutes of driving to get there. Its a small thing but it made me so happy to find places so close to my house.
The next step would be to condense my shopping trips so I only need to hit one of those stores each week or to make it an every other week trip. Although I might want to get out of the house once a week. We'll see how it goes once the twins arrive.
I do think that learning the area will be something that I will really focus on when I'm home full time. Just knowing the resources around me will help me to make the most of them.
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I must say I love supporting the local health food store. They are nice and helpful and not any more expensive than whole paycheck. :)
This is 100% random, but I just saw your comment on Like Merchant Ships about homemade kombucha. I've been buying it already made, and I've searched out a couple of places where I can order the cultures online, but I keep hesitating - I thought maybe I'd ask if you knew where I could buy a culture in the DC/MD/Northern VA area? I know it's a long shot, but can't hurt to ask :) (P.S. are the fruit flies really bad? I never even considered that!!)
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