We are moving to France

Actually we made it in April of 2023

Author: blueeyedpop

  • Sitting, reflecting, writing

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    My second winter in France is approaching. We hit 0°C a few nights ago, ice on the roads, a millimeter or 3 of ice on the car. I still recall the weeks prior to our departure: The stress of the FDA stamp for the dogs to travel. Selling all of the cars and driving a…

  • You had one job

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    Our kitchen renovation in (I have lost count) easy steps. Step one: Measure Measure the kitchen space to determine what can be put where. We opted to have a kitchen company help with the design, rather than simply go with Ikea. We are in the autumn of our lives, the necessity to do another kitchen…

  • Then and now

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    A list of things I am getting used to I’m still vacillating between feeling totally normal here and wondering how I got here and what my place is in this new, wacky world, but as I look back, I see the things that felt totally alien slipping into normalcy. Shopping carts Shopping carts here, with…

  • Home is where the anchor drops

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    Sometimes I feel floaty I have these moments of disassociation. I stand there and can’t believe where I am (south west of France) , how I got here (years of planning and a terrifying leap.) I look and see patterns. I see trajectories. And for the life of me I just don’t see the south…

  • That’s how its done

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    I passed. I have a French driver’s license. This is more or less the process(less) Rewind to a year ago to November 2023. I did two things to ensure that when my California driver’s license expired that I would have already taken and passed my test. Come January 2024 And I do get ahold of…

  • Just drive she said

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    According to my instructor I passed my test to get my Level B, Automatic Transmission driver’s license. To protect the examiner from having the living snot beaten out of them, they no longer tell you in person if you pass of fail. I took a practice test at my driver’s school yesterday… I failed for…

  • Kitchen, kitchen, who’s got my kitchen

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    Kitchen pre-demo. The exploratory demo shows some bizarre trenching. Last you heard, we were doing some preliminary demo to get ready for the new kitchen. Well, It is in progress. As of today, 20% of the tile is in. We still have a sink, thanks to some saw horses and the good graces of the…

  • Renovation

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    The kitchen is moving forward We have identified a contractor We have a not unreasonable quote We have water damage and mold, possibly from the pompe a chalor drainage issues that were eloquently documented on the previous version of my blog that are lost to the ravages of my previous web-host. In short, the pompe…

  • The driving saga

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    5 months 3 day later, I am able to drive again…Supervised. Step one Move to France from a non reciprocal state like California. The date is April 14, 2023. My residency takes effect when customs stamps my passport. My residency starts a one year fuse on my driver’s license. In 1 year I will be…

  • Just a simple post

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    Falling directly into the mundania category, Yesterday my wife and I went to visit some friends, specifically, my wife dropped me off at one of our friends houses, while she went to some other friend’s house. She went to see the improvements they had done to the place, specifically tiling the chapel floor that sits…