After whittling down our household possessions to what amounted to a bunch of boxes – we sold or gave away pretty much everything else – we bid them a fond “au revoir” yesterday as the movers stuffed them into wooden shipping crates for their upcoming Odyssey to our new home in France.

This will be the sixth time we’ve shuttled all our stuff around since 2016, and I pray it’ll be the last!

FloridaMarylandHawaiiTexasIdahoFull-time on the road, with periodic stays at my dad’s place in Arizona, and soon…France!

Looking back, the only thing I definitely would change if I could hop in the the ol’ time machine would’ve been our year-long sojourn in Texas. The job I took there was absolutely horrible, so bad, in fact, that I chose to resign two years short of getting my full Federal pension rather than have to stay there two more years (and my management chain wouldn’t allow me to change to an office that could actually use me).

Anyway, that’s all poop down the sewer. Looking ahead, we’ll be leaving Phoenix this Sunday in our car & camper, first to Arlington, Texas, to visit some friends, then onward to Nashville for a trade show. After that, we’ll be heading to D.C. to interview for our French visas, then kill some time while we wait for the visas to (hopefully!) be approved. Somewhere in there, we have to sell the car and camper before we head up to Newark and catch our flight to Paris in early April, when we’ll be closing on our new home.

“Boot On Box”

So, yeah, we’re freaking exhausted, but also excited. As I think I’ve mentioned before, this is the result of several years of research and planning, and we finally pulled the trigger to actually make it happen in April 2023.

Now we just have to start loading up the camper – we’re going to save that for tomorrow, as we’re exhausted from all the packing out stuff – and then hit the road Sunday morning…

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