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Surrender

20 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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expat, packing, selling stuff, travel

OMG! I didn’t mean to sell that! It happens. It happened to us today when we visited the just-posted estate-sale website of our stuff. It’s an exercise in folly. And fate. And, well, surrender.

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Venus and Mars

18 Monday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Accommodations, Travel

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expat, packing, travel

With a sigh of relief, everything destined for our storage unit is now there – and there’s room left over. It’s kismet. However, two disparate storage strategies have emerged, vindicating the Venus-and-Mars interpretation of the gender binary.

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The Half-Life of the Incipient Expat

17 Sunday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise in Travel

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Sir Wooliam in plastic

We glance around to see what time it is, and the clocks are gone. We go out to sit on the balcony, and the chairs are gone. We look for clothes in the drawers, and the clothes are gone. We sit down to watch Jeopardy, and the television is Just. Not. There.

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Like Living on Death Row

12 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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expat, packing, travel

fancy bars of soap

We’ve collected numerous bars of elegant soap over the years, all destined for future use. You know how it is: you spend a night in a chic hotel, you take home the soap. We’ve visited a few chic hotels in our days; we’ve snitched some pretty elegant soap.

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Florencia the Frontier

08 Friday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise in Accommodations, Travel

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expat, packing, travel

photi of tom and Florencia

A red letter day! We put the first boxes in storage. This gave Tom a chance to rent his preferred method of transportation, a pickup truck. (Tom and truck pictured above.) It was a black Nissan Zipcar named Florencia the Frontier. (If you don’t have Zipcars in your ‘hood, it’s an hourly vehicle rental service with cars parked conveniently around the city, and they all have names that go with their species, such as Harry Hundai and Felicia Ford. It’s adorable.)

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Box Town

05 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel, Video

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packing, travel

“Shambles” is much too nice of a word to describe our apartment — or our lives, for that matter — as we remove our worldly goods from closets and shelves and box them up for sale and storage. In a two-minute video, Louise conducts a tour of our Portland apartment — or what’s left of it — 25 days before we begin the expat life.

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It’s the Little Things That Hurt

06 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by Louise in Sentiments, Travel

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Closeup of Louise's accessories

I was chatting with my son Ted about our adventure, and admitted I was a little scared. (Don’t worry—I have run all the cognitive therapy questions and I know intellectually that leaving home is no scarier than staying home. But I will allow myself to be scared anyway, because it’s a normal reaction to a big forthcoming change.)

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The Half-Empty Bag

05 Friday Oct 2012

Posted by Louise & Tom in Travel

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the half-full blue duffel

The optimist claims his cup is “half full.” Usually. But today, this optimist says “half empty.” And it’s not a cup, it’s a bag.

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Bag and Baggage

07 Friday Sep 2012

Posted by Louise in Accommodations

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expat, expatriate, luggage, packing, travel

While Tom writes rhapsodic thoughts about the true meaning of home, I am pondering luggage. He is a poet; I am a Capricorn.

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