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June 14, 2021 by John 10 Comments

Image: boxes, still not packed
Boxes in the garage, assembled (like the staff in the entry drive at Downtown Abbey) and waiting to be filled. This is about half of the ones we have available, and we don’t plan to buy more… They are, after all, the same boxes we filled when we moved to the apartment two years ago. And the gods know, we haven’t the space here to let us acquire too much new stuff in the meantime.

…or first ones, I guess. Depends on how you look at the next two weeks.

The lease on our apartment is up at the end of the month, so — like it or not — by July 1 we won’t have a place to live. In the meantime, I hope to start posting updates here; these probably will not be daily, and probably not very long, but I thought it’d be more convenient (for you and me) to do it this way than by cramming a gigantic email update into everyone’s Inboxes.

One other note: I can’t make any promises (So what else is new?, you ask), but I hope that Toni will occasionally drop her own notes here, too. Odds are very very very good that our impressions of everything — road trips in general, this road trip in particular, points of interest, and so on — our impressions will differ quite a bit. I’d hate to bear the responsibility for representing her side fairly!

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Filed Under: Trip Preparation Tagged With: departing (one place or another), packing

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  1. Cynthia says

    June 14, 2021 at 5:41 pm

    Got it…

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    • John says

      June 15, 2021 at 12:01 pm

      I was pretty confident you would. 😉

      Reply
  2. John says

    June 14, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    Follow-up:

    I’ve looked into a possible way to provide automatic read-aloud capability. Once — IF — I get it going all right, it will work pretty smoothly. However, it’s proving to be a bit more difficult to set up than I thought it would. So, we’ll see!

    Reply
  3. Cynth says

    June 18, 2021 at 10:44 am

    So none of these comments showed up in my email. Am I not doing something?

    Reply
    • John says

      June 18, 2021 at 10:58 am

      This is gonna drive me nuts, I can tell — definitely an “It’s not you, it’s me!” thing. I have a feeling it will take me a while to unsnarl. I’m looking forward to doing so, finally, from (say) somewhere in Arkansas! 🤣

      Reply
    • John says

      June 18, 2021 at 11:00 am

      Note, by the way: the first time you commented, you used a slightly different “sign-in” — i.e., “Cynthia” rather than “Cynth.” The blogging software assumes you’re two different people, even though the email address is the same. I can probably fix this… just let me know!

      Reply
  4. mapelba says

    June 20, 2021 at 3:38 pm

    So did the boxes contain all the same stuff? If so, that’s some real packing mojo.

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  5. JES-Alternate says

    June 21, 2021 at 8:57 am

    I’m trying to figure out why people who checked the “notify me of new posts” box haven’t received such notifications.

    Reply
  6. Laura says

    July 25, 2021 at 11:13 pm

    Just started reading tonight!! I love your writing and look forward to catching up to where you are now…Oh!! Still at daughter’s resident, still waiting for the Missus to get well, still waiting to “get this show ON THE ROAD… Can’t wait to get to the last 3 weeks‼️Does the Missus have a bell to summon assistance?? 🤩😩♥️

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    • John says

      July 27, 2021 at 9:34 am

      Good to see you here! Just remember to check the date of any post you’re reading — the “three weeks” at the time I posted this, of course, has since turned into, what, five or six weeks?!? It’s felt like living in bomb shelter for some weird psychological experiment.

      The Missus needs no bell, she has something at least as good: a solicitous partner. 🤩

      Reply

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