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Everything is falling into place. We have plane tickets to leave on Friday evening, September 28th at 6:55PM. It’s finally happening, unlike sleep, which is why I am typing this at 4:18 AM. We fly on our Air France.
A funny thing happened to us on the way to sell our car. We got a buyer [...]

The truck

The boxes

The emptiness

The sadness

Saran wrap for boxes, enviornmentally incorrect, but it sure is handy.

Backbreaking labor, thanks to Hank and his uncle.
Did you see how many boxes? I think we moved 140 items, boxes, furniture, etc. Very zen and pared down of us.

This morning we pack the container. We have looked forward to this day all month. It will be great to get all the stuff that has been piling up out of our house. At the same time it terrifies us. We’ll take pictures so you can share in our misery/joy.

This video about Toulouse is shorter and much more palatable than the 8 minute marathon of modern Toulouse and broke down Toulouse. It is very poignant for us as it spans 3 chapters in our lives. The music in the background is Survivor “Eye of the Tiger”. When we sold our house [...]

Many of our friends did not know much, if anything at all, about Toulouse. Since this blog is about our moving there, I thought I should start posting about the city. Here is a video I found on YouTube that shows many neighborhoods of the city. The Drum and Bass soundtrack gets [...]

As many of you know we made wine in our basement last Fall. We bought Alicante grape juice, we aren’t the crushing type. We have been drinking it and it hasn’t been very good until now. One demi-john became sour and we made wonderful vinegar out of it. The others still have [...]