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# Viva Las Here.
- URL: https://brilliantcrank.com/viva-las-here/
- Published: 2026-09-29T16:52:49.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-29T17:00:47.000Z
- Author: Greg Storey

Without an announcement or a decision, really, I used the sale of my home and the flurry of events that followed as an excuse to walk away from just about everything. Not permanently, mind you, and it turned out to be a much-needed break that I didn't realize I'd been putting off for far too long. My own unintended version of [*On the Road*](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540750/on-the-road-by-jack-kerouac/9780142437254/readers-guide/?ref=brilliantcrank.com) without all the typing.

In the last two months or so we have lived in four different homes in three different states and locked into a contract on our next residence. We've had the delight to live in Napa for almost a month. While there I went to work in a real office for the first time in seven years with a group of lovely and very supportive people who I now miss being around in person dearly. We really knocked a lot off the punch list, so to speak, while we were there but left enough to come back many times over. And we shall.

Unlike previous road trips, we didn't fill time with the typical distractions of music or podcasts, leaving a lot of space to think and let the brain wander. While bombing down the road at an acceptable rate of speed above the limit, we spent time reflecting on the past. We talked through our previous transitions and migrations in eight states and fifteen homes over the last thirty-plus years. Most of those moves came with thoughts and send-offs of "next chapter," a popular pun that comes with the name. But this time feels different. In a lot of ways the last couple of months turned into a quiet goodbye to just about everything in the past. This time, relocation feels more like "next book."

Yesterday, as I changed the home address in my phone, I scrolled through the contacts and realized the majority of the entries were from several previous chapters gone by. So I took a few minutes and purged about a hundred names, phone numbers, and email addresses of people I haven't thought about or interacted with in a long while. After I finished I leaned back in my chair and wondered why I had not done that before. I don't spend any time in the Contacts app, but I should have done this more often, trimming the fringe of history to free up space for the next.

Now we are in a new place that is so different from anywhere else. We've been to Las Vegas many, many times over the last twenty years, but to live here is different. There are so many things to explore at many levels and domains. Telling people where we were going was often met with scoffs and comments grounded in one-dimensional stereotypes. That's fine. I always enjoy when people self-select out of my orbit. In about a month I'll have the pleasure of using a private saltwater pool. I have to be honest that I don't know exactly what that means yet but it sounds awesome, and I'm going to need to buy a robe and a fresh [box of sticks](https://olivacigar.com/cigars/serie-g/?ref=brilliantcrank.com).

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