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For various reasons, this Thanksgiving we decided to celebrate the quintessential American holiday by going to Canada. These reasons had a lot more to do with both Mike and I having four days off in a row than anything intentionally … Continue reading
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Home Again
Flying back from Massachusetts to New Zealand convinced me that one of the reasons I’ve taken two years to do so is that it is a very long way by anyone’s standards. (Almost precisely 10,000 miles, in fact, which is a … Continue reading
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A road trip
(Quick preface: this is still sans pictures, mostly, but I’ll be editing them in when I get them. In the meantime…) When we set out for Baltimore, I hadn’t actually looked up how far it was, though I had a … Continue reading
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Some First Impressions
I landed at San Francisco yesterday, on my second go-round at Monday (after crossing the International Date Line on the flight over.) The flight was uneventful, apart from one discovery; that the way to get stuff onto a plane that … Continue reading
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T -23 hours
After all that, packing only took two hours (as I stripped down what I needed to take from what I wanted to take from what I would have liked to take.) Books ended up getting prioritised, but, hey, I’m going … Continue reading
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Bureaucracy
One of the biggest steps in this whole Going To The US process is getting our visas, in order that we can, you know, actually enter the country. This is a process which has filled me with some trepidation. I … Continue reading
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