Canada: It’s a Beauty Way to Go…Maybe (Part V)
Moving 7,000+ kilometers is never easy. Doing so in times of COVID made every interaction include the word “maybe” as well as the phrase “it used to work like this.”
Tag: move
Canada, It’s a Beauty Way to Go…Maybe (part III)
Was it all stuffy and awkward? No way, eh. Before the world shut down, we very much enjoyed the ability to access things we never would have seen in Costa Rica: amateur hockey matches, fencing lessons for Thing #1, a great variety of restaurants, kayaking for crabs, seal and otter watching and, of course, poutine.
Always on the Run
The parents in the movie had done some illegal (nothing evil, but they were sideways with the man). Their kids were unaware of this significant wrinkle. All they knew is that they were tired of moving in the middle of the night to another town where they would again be forced to start over with a new school, friends, etc.
You Can’t Go Home Again, but You Can Pay a Pretty Penny to Drag its Contents With You
This process was supposed to be orderly and methodical, with me marking down each item on a master inventory and indicating something profound about it to satisfy the burning curiosity of the folks in Customs. For example, “Medium box, study, contains yearbooks that haven’t been opened since the first Bush presidency — H.W. not W.”