Stop number 8: we're back in Amherst. I've had the chance to do some laundry, repack and work on shipping a couple boxes to Taiwan. It turns out that if you're patient and can wait 68 days you can send a table loom halfway around the world for about a hundred bucks!

The travel gods have a twisted sense of humor. They gave us car trouble but waited until we were in town for a couple days, had the trouble be covered by the warranty and gave us one of the nicest Subaru repair shops I've ever seen. Once that was taken care of we were back on the road to Connecticut one more time to deal with various bits of paperwork.

While we were in the neighborhood we took advantage of the opportunity to have one more dinner at Plan B Burger Bar with our wonderful friends, the Cox/Sheldons. This is me, Riley and Darby, who's hiding behind her hands:

It's been a little odd, all these goodbyes. Wandering around for a month between selling the house and flying away means that we've said goodbye and then reappeared a number of times. I hugged my sisters goodbye last night but I'm still in town for a couple days (while they're busy with work) so I haven't even gone anywhere. It's made leaving seem unreal. We say goodbye and nothing changes. It's just odd.