What we have been up to.
Hello again everyone. Nice to see you.
We are back in the USA for Tin Can Travels No. 2, and raring to go.
It has been 11 months since we packed up Big Dave and Tin Can into Vault Storage, Merrimack and headed back to NZ via the UK and Hong Kong. We arrived back into NZ and reclaimed our beautiful home from the cleanest tenant in the world. (You know who you are 🙂
It was great to catch up with our friends. I did some work but not enough to break out into a sweat and I entered a marathon which forced me to get off my behind and do some training. The biggest happening of the summer, however, was that we sold our house.
We hadn’t planned to do this, but one thing led to another and after a whole 2 days on the market it sold fully furnished. Now we were voluntarily homeless. The generosity of friends kept a roof over our heads and we sold/donated/chucked about 2/3 of our possessions. Mid-life crisis? Maybe.
This is our storage unit containing our worldly possessions. (Minus car and boat)
I ran the Rotorua marathon in 5 hours and 13 minutes.
Our vague itinerary for our second USA trip had us arriving back in Boston in September to head to the deep south via the west side of the Appalachian mountains, then across the Southern states to the Southwest parks. We didn’t want to do this trip in summer and tornado/hurricane season. France was calling us back, and the thought of skipping another NZ winter was very attractive. We booked an apartment in Sète, a fishing port on the Med, and spent a very hot summer living a simple life of eating, drinking, walking, sitting, watching and french lessons. It was blissful. The last 2 weeks of August we met up with our UK families in a big holiday home near Bergerac and had a noisy fortnight of eating, drinking and fun. 24 of us at full occupancy. Madness! We had 2 nights in Paris after our goodbyes then flew to Boston.
Close by, in a storage facility, sits a camper called Tin Can, sat atop a truck called Big Dave. Our home.