June 19, 2006

We gave away a lot of our stuff, sold our house, and moved to a very small house. I call it our storage locker with a view. Our emotions alternate between bourgeois crisis (we made a mistake..we miss our pretty house!) to feeling as though we haven't jettisoned enough.

Nancy quit her job; today is her first jobless monday in many years. We are cancelling the paper, garbage, phone, etc. etc. Interesting how much it takes to run a household.

In two days we will continue the walkabout we started last October, with the difference that there is no end date planned. Interestingly, we will begin by driving to the town where I grew up, meeting my mother and sister there for some good old-fashioned reminiscing.

I cannot believe we are actually doing this.

-Jack