Thursday, March 03, 2005
Our first goodbye!
YEAH LARRY - YOU ARE OUT THERE!
Well we had our first goodbye last night. We had a really tough start in a social life of any type when we first arrived in Perth. But now as we start to leave we are sad to say goodbye to some friends and hope the friendships can out last the distance.
Ron and his wife Margot are leaving on Monday in their caravan (motor home) to travel around Australia a bit. Ron is Alan (Whitey's step dad's) youngest brother so only 8 years older than Whitey. After we were here for about a year, Ron called Whitey to get some electrical work done. They had really only known each other a bit in their younger years. We all found we had some things in common - mostly eating at unusual restaurants. Well they retired and have been getting a caravan ready for a couple years and 'planning on traveling' for that long. They went away briefly but, like us all, are big procrastinators. A couple months ago they offered to let us stay at their house 'when they left the end of February'. A great opportunity to sell off our furniture and stuff early and have space to finish house stuff. Now they really have to go, no more excuses or they would have roommates not house sitters. All their friends and family are happy they are being pushed into their travels.
But we went to dinner last night witht them and we tried to not get mushy about it but it was quite sad. The good news is that they and another couple are thinking of coming out to SF and see some of the states and Canada in a year or so.
So now we will seriously start selling off our stuff and move very quickly on the house.
cheers,
Max
Well we had our first goodbye last night. We had a really tough start in a social life of any type when we first arrived in Perth. But now as we start to leave we are sad to say goodbye to some friends and hope the friendships can out last the distance.
Ron and his wife Margot are leaving on Monday in their caravan (motor home) to travel around Australia a bit. Ron is Alan (Whitey's step dad's) youngest brother so only 8 years older than Whitey. After we were here for about a year, Ron called Whitey to get some electrical work done. They had really only known each other a bit in their younger years. We all found we had some things in common - mostly eating at unusual restaurants. Well they retired and have been getting a caravan ready for a couple years and 'planning on traveling' for that long. They went away briefly but, like us all, are big procrastinators. A couple months ago they offered to let us stay at their house 'when they left the end of February'. A great opportunity to sell off our furniture and stuff early and have space to finish house stuff. Now they really have to go, no more excuses or they would have roommates not house sitters. All their friends and family are happy they are being pushed into their travels.
But we went to dinner last night witht them and we tried to not get mushy about it but it was quite sad. The good news is that they and another couple are thinking of coming out to SF and see some of the states and Canada in a year or so.
So now we will seriously start selling off our stuff and move very quickly on the house.
cheers,
Max
// posted by ytmax @ 2:45 PM 
