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We can’t get our adventure out of our minds. While Louise buys luggage, I conspire with cartoon characters to clutter the blog:
How We Waste Our Time
11 Tuesday Sep 2012
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Tag Archives: travel
Bag and Baggage
07 Friday Sep 2012
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While Tom writes rhapsodic thoughts about the true meaning of home, I am pondering luggage. He is a poet; I am a Capricorn.
Home is Where the Head Is
06 Thursday Sep 2012
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We talked this morning about the concept of “home.” If we’re to become serial expats, living here and there for three or six months at a time, will we feel homesickness? And if we feel it, for what home will we feel sick?
Home Furnishings
08 Wednesday Aug 2012
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The new Ikea catalog came today. This is always fun: looking at the new affordable household perker-uppers, fabrics, lamps, and storage gizmos. But this time it was all somebody else’s fantasy. We are here for eight more months and then comes the tag sale, the storage room, and the trip abroad with one suitcase.
Life After Girona
09 Monday Jul 2012
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We’ve been discussing Life After Girona lately. Ireland? Italy? Switzerland?
Or, maybe, no plans at all. Perhaps we’ll wait until the last minute – the 88th day in Girona? – before we decide where to go next.
Serial Expat
26 Tuesday Jun 2012
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After Spain — Ireland!
21 Thursday Jun 2012
Posted in Travel
You may notice that all is sweetness and light with us, except for the visa thing. The idea of amassing a bale of documents and flying down to San Francisco to present them in person, at $300 per round trip (each), then doing the same a month later to pick up the visa stamp…well, life is too short. We love going to San Francisco, but document digging we hate. All this to stay ninety days or more in Spain?
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