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Final Goodbye in 3 Days

Final Goodbye in 3 Days

When I tell folks I'm leaving, they usually don't get it. How to explain my Visa was not renewed, and would not be. For most, their experience is a trip away for a weekend, a month or two at most...then home again.

When I say, I'm going to the other side of the Earth, and probably won't be back, I get incredulous looks and protests. The real world is run by governments and their foreign policy, their trade, their currency---all that stuff. Unless one travels to other countries you never interface with international borders. Fortunately, on this trip I will only have to exit Iran with the proper 'exit stamp', fines paid, ticket in hand, etc. Then on to Germany, then Mexico, and finally after many, many hours, the border of Belize, and home at last!

Well, not quite. There still is a three and a half hour bus ride. But at that point I usually can sleep anywhere. The concern is always watching and hanging on to the precious luggage. One suitcase, and one carry-on backpack, and the camera. That's all.

The first time I really moved from Carmel Valley to Hollywood, it took a moving van full of books, beds, furniture, clothes, tools. Like 14 years of accumulation. Well, no more. If you can't carry it, it stays behind. Well, my partner is going...but that's another story for another time.

We've been to dinner last night with extended family and another part of the family this morning for breakfast...goodbys all around, a few tears and quick out the door to not argue about why.

My life is in the web-book with the two novels and all the notes and research. Happily there are copies in my portfolio of the partly finished work.
    Iguanamountain lives!

Until next time. >>>iggy

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