May 17 2008
Countdown to Departure
Casa Furtwangler is in departure mode… I leave June 2, and the ladies follow on June 6 - three weeks from today. So the house has piles of stuff laid out, and we’re having hot and heavy discussions about how many pairs of shorts a person needs for 8 weeks on the road. I’ve bought about six pairs of shoes in the last three weeks, gradually returning each pair after a few days of wearing them around the house. It’s coming down to the wire and I need some shoes I can wear and wear, but cheapskate that I am I just can’t bear to spend REI prices.
So I’ve got these two pairs home right now - left foot is $20 from Big Five and right foot is $75 from REI. They feel about the same, maybe if I keep the $20 shoes and add a pair of $35 insoles I liked at REI I’ll come out ahead of the game. Or maybe I’ll just have unhappy feet. We’ll see.
Meanwhile I’m posting a few safari pictures from my March 07 Tanzania trip just to make sure the Flickr feed works, and get this blog in the mood.
dude, live a little - keep the REi ones. they’re better looking anyway.
I’m having shoe trouble myself, but refuse to blog about it. xo, L
Said good-bye to an excited Claire and Lyanda last night. ONE pair of shorts, said Claire,
“because over there they are modest.”
Hillary and Obama met secretly last night at an unidentified location, by her invitation. “Productive meeting.” Seems she’ll formally concede on Saturday. Your mind will be on other things. John Edwards has definitely declared he’s not interested in v.p. So said the crawl as I puffed on the elliptical this morning.
Glued now to the French Open.
The world continues to go round and round and make a somewhat musical sound, as Wallace Stevens once noted.
Happy landings for you all together in Africa. I do not Twitter.