{"id":328,"date":"2012-08-12T18:42:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2012-08-12T18:42:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T01:42:44","slug":"jessopland-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Jessopland 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago when Jerry and I started dating he took me to central Nevada. Less than an hour after our flight on the Casino Express landed at the Elko airport we were in a 4 wheel driving across the desert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/casino-express.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"casino express\" border=\"0\" alt=\"casino express\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/casino-express_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry was in heaven and I was wondering where the nearest Target was. Turns out it was at the Nevada\/Utah boarder in Wendover.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/karen-desert.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"karen desert\" border=\"0\" alt=\"karen desert\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/karen-desert_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry had been talking about his love for Nevada as long as I\u2019d known him. He told me his dream was to retire there. I nodded politely and \u201cThe sky sure is a pretty shade a blue.\u201d The sky <i>was<\/i> a pretty shade of blue and I did see some beauty in the desert but at the tender age of 35, the idea of retiring out there scared the crap out of me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC00397.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"DSC00397\" border=\"0\" alt=\"DSC00397\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC00397_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When he pulled up at a real estate office a few minutes later I burst out in tears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/desert-for-sale.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"desert for sale\" border=\"0\" alt=\"desert for sale\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/desert-for-sale_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jerry doesn\u2019t do well with tears. He told me right then and there that any future we had together would have to include Nevada. If I wasn\u2019t up for that I could move on.<\/p>\n<p>By that time my heart was already won so I adopted the Nevada dream as well and after eight years of scouring the internet, countless road trips, numerous phone calls with real estate agents and most importantly, squirreling away cash, I am happy to announce that we now own four acres of Nevada land with this on it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/duck-hill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 10px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"duck hill\" border=\"0\" alt=\"duck hill\" src=\"http:\/\/ladyjessop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/duck-hill_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a pretty good compromise I think. There\u2019s enough land for Jerry to feel remote yet only a 5 minute drive to downtown Carson City, Nevada\u2019s state capitol and home to a Target and plenty of other retail establishments to make me feel at home. Best of all, it was cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, cheap doesn\u2019t come without its own price. The house does need a nice chunk of construction work done to it. We\u2019ve spent the majority of the summer gathering bids from contractors and hope to finally get started with work on the place soon. Here\u2019s hoping I\u2019ll have some \u201cafter\u201d photos by next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine years ago when Jerry and I started dating he took me to central Nevada. Less than an hour after our flight on the Casino Express landed at the Elko airport we were in a 4 wheel driving across the desert. Jerry was in heaven and I was wondering where the nearest Target was. 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