Category Archives: Repatriating

We are finished packing!!  What a challenge it was.  We kept rearranging and re-deciding what to take until we had all the cases below the airline weight limits.  My studio tenant, Elizabeth, came over and we had our last session … Continue reading →

No – we still don’t know when we are going – but we cannot wait until we do before we start packing.  It now looks like we’re up against a wall, not knowing when we can go until 7 days … Continue reading →

Our good friends Bob Friestad and Jim & Sandi Turner threw a going away party for us – even though we still don’t when, and even possibly if, we are going.  We mentioned that – and the decision was that … Continue reading →

Today we heard from Nathalie who has been ushering our visas through the bureaucratic slog.  It is normal, when a couple is not legally married, that the partner’s visa takes 6 to 8 weeks longer to go through the canton’s … Continue reading →

It has been amazing to me, how much work it has been to prepare for the year. Just getting ready to be away for a full year is a lot. How to receive and pay all the bills. How to … Continue reading →