I suppose the journey began on the first of November, as that was the day we turned our house over to our renter, Rebecca, and her daughter Anuhea. I am pleased to have Rebecca renting the house, and she seemed very pleased to be able to rent it: a good situation all around. It turned out to be difficult to find someone to rent the house, and we only found Rebecca just ten days before we had hoped to leave. Moving out of your house was something I had blissfully forgotten about until the days before our impending departure, when we were launched into a pell-mell packing of everything in sight. Unlike the normal trip packing, you actually have to deal with every last thing in your house, down to the tiny items in the back
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