Four years later... and another milestone.

To be honest, I had rather forgotten about my blog but I was reminiscing about the road trip from CA to MA on Route 66 and came back to read it.

Here we are, four years later and at another milestone. We've decided to move back to the UK next year. There is so much to see and do between now and then, I thought I would try and keep a record of it all. We'll see!

Today it is raining, and we've tried to do something toward moving every time we are 'stuck' in the house. We have started going through some of the boxes in the attic office space. We ended up moving some things here from CA that we shouldn't have, therefore the aim is to whittle it down even more this time. We are also not self-packing like our last move either, so it is more about sorting through everything we have. We've already accumulated four boxes of electrical waste that have been taken to Staples.

The thing I'm not so fond of doing is selling online. I haven't had a great deal of luck so far but I think I haven't spread the net wide enough so far.

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