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Our post-trip Trip

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments · Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, travel, Uncategorized

Anyone reading this from the 60s-70s generation might need read no further; you probably get the general idea!

Two days home and we’re beginning to adjust. The time changes that happened on board the ship helped a great deal – but not entirely. We seem to be about 3 hours off still, not bad for four months living in another time zone. But we awaken at 6 am hungry for breakfast – okay, I know, for some of you that’s normal! But we’ve been getting up and eating breakfast about 10 am for a few weeks (and staying up late at restaurants, tapas bars, or on the ship, dancing every evening).

And our tasks at home are fairly sedentary considering that for the last 4 months we have walked 3 – 8 hours every day!

And, the weather doesn’t help! It’s been in the high 90s since we arrived home: a real shock to our systems! Although we probably had 80s during our trip to Morocco and desert, we’ve not had more than mid-70s. And our last weeks in France, England and the crossing were actually in the 60s with more often than not overcast skies, so the temperature difference is a big one. (Okay, and welcome home — our central air-conditioner died last night – and since we’re not elderly/or have children, we are not on the fix it by tomorrow list! We have plenty of fans but still no fun.)

But probably the weirdest adjustment in two days is the little moments of trying to find stuff or coming across winter seasonal stuff! Our winter boots and gear are nicely lined up at the back door where we left them. As are the snow shovels, snow guards and other items you use to winterize a house!

When we left, it was the day after a snow storm of 7 inches, and there was probably 3 feet of snow on the ground.

When we arrived yesterday, the rhododendrums, lilacs and all sorts of spring flowers were in full bloom about the house.

We went to open the windows for air last night and had to do the winter storm removal thing. All of the tasks that we would normally do over the spring as the weather changes have to be done these first days home – very strange!

And, once again, the hot days aren’t helping as it is just too hot except at 7 a.m. to do anything out of doors (good thing we were up this morning that early!).

Welcome back to New England’s crazy weather!

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