“Won’t you get tired of good weather all the time?” That was my friend Doyle, an Oregon native like me – and like me, a man of webbed feet and hooded raincoats.
Ten Thousand Days of Rain
27 Wednesday Feb 2013
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Monthly Archives: February 2013
The Around-the-World Fund
22 Friday Feb 2013
Every evening Louise puts her loose change in the bank pictured above, a gift from her son Ted when they were going through a “Pinky and the Brain” phase in 1993. Along with my loose change (I use a classy a wicker basket), we had amassed what we called the “Round the World Fund.” Today, 36 days from departure and after a combined ten years of collecting pocket change, it was time to cash in. We anticipated thousands. What a great way to hit the road!
So Much Stuff; So Few Boxes
18 Monday Feb 2013
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At last I have something in common with the great novelist Ann Beattie: an insatiable need for free boxes. She too is moving, and writes in the February 17th New York Times: “Boxes are much on the itinerant person’s mind. I brood about lost boxes, boxes I received via UPS — those Zappos boots! — that I stupidly took to the recycling center.”
Our Day Jobs
14 Thursday Feb 2013
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Louise and I do have day jobs. She’s a writer and I’m a publisher, and today — as if we have nothing else to do a month before we depart — we published our first collaborative book.
That Old Je ne sais quoi….
11 Monday Feb 2013
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I mentioned, in my delirious tag sale entry, that we will spend our last ten days in Portland at a friend’s apartment….a crucial piece of the departure puzzle.
Our Lady of Guadalupe
06 Wednesday Feb 2013
While Louise and I dance on the rim of sanity, impatiently contemplating our departure 52 days from now, a brief diversion…
The Expat Almanac 