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Life in Storage, by Cathy

August 1st at last. Here’s  how our day went. Woke up in beautiful Serene Lakes, packed our bags (3 carry-on & 2 “personal items”), and drove to our storage unit in Benicia. Drove the car in, disabled the battery, and closed the door on all our stuff. Ubered to Lafayette, where we dropped off some things to the safe deposit box and picked up a few things at our mail center (Ian & Sue are the best! – handling all our mail for us); disabled our US cell ph #s at the AT&T store; and finally hopped on BART to OAK. Arrived in plenty of time for check-in/screening and with a last “I can’t believe we’re actually doing this” and a deep breath, boarded our (Boeing 787 Dreamliner, much to Mick’s pleasure) Norwegian Air flight to Gatwick. It’s official.

Practicing for our trip by being tourists in San Francisco!

July 1st, morning.  The effects of a spontaneous cocktail hour with neighbors exacerbated by the realization of the work still necessary to get the house ready for the renters & ourselves on the road to Serene Lakes. Continue reading “All Washed Up”

Jeff, Mick and I had a very nice meeting with a nurse at Passport Health who provided us with all kinds of information about our trip, including the likelihood of our getting traveler’s diarrhea (100%) and the somewhat less likely, but scary possibility of contracting rabies in India (highest rate of rabies in the world and I do like to pet every dog I see!).  Continue reading “A Yellow Fever Vaccine Costs WHAT?”