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Our Blog Mentioned on Yahoo (KJ)

18. June 2008

Tom, one of our readers, gave me the heads up about a Yahoo story that mentioned us. It’s so weird to think had I not seen the link, I would have never known that the article was there and that hundreds of their readers would be discussing/debating my choices. The story, titled “Whose American [...]

13 (KJ)

17. June 2008

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That’s the number of days we have to get out of this apartment. Let me rephrase, that’s the number of days we have to finish separating our clothes, pack up the van full of the stuff we’re keeping, load the RV, get rid of the beds, dressers, tables, and desks, find a vacuum (because [...]

Leaving the Disney Factory (KJ)

13. June 2008

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Are you tired of walking through toy stores and passing entire aisles of toys dedicated to Disney/Pixar movies? I am. The other day we were going somewhere on the highway and CM and actually tried to stay along side an 18-wheeler in order to prevent the kids from seeing a gigantic “Wall-e” billboard. [...]

Books, Knowledge, and Me (KJ)

12. June 2008

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We have a ton of books. This morning a book dealer came buy and bought about a half of them and all of our children’s books. I think he gave us a fair price, but I still feel violated. I had a lot of books on different software programs and various internet [...]

Would you come to Bed-Stuy(CM)

11. June 2008

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So after we tried to get the charities to pick up our furniture, we decided to put it on freeCycle. I just wanted to share one phone call. This guy calls and is very inspective about our furniture. “Could you describe it”,”is it modern?”, and “what are the dimensions?”

On Purging (KJ)

11. June 2008

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A lot of people have been really encouraging about our purge. Neither CM nor I want our RV to be cluttered with a bunch of junk. I’ve got to be honest here, this is REALLY HARD. Now that everything is off of the shelves and out of the drawers, our house is [...]

The Antagonist In Our Story (KJ)

9. June 2008

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We have just about sold all of our electronics. I’ve sent hundreds of emails and we’ve burned through nearly all of our AT&T rollover minutes trying to give people directions to our house, so they can pick stuff up. During these last couple of weeks, I’ve seen electronics that cost us $2000+ sell [...]

Conspicuous Consumption (KJ)

7. June 2008

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Viking brand ranges are the top-selling high-end ovens in the country. I’ve drooled over them once or twice in my life. Did you know that 75% of them go unused?? I personally draw a parallel with my own possessions. I’ve got a ton of clothes and I’m so sad because I [...]

Now What? (kj)

6. June 2008

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We have nearly stretched ourselves to our financial breaking point in order to buy the RV and now that we’ve got it, we can’t move it! Then we see the article in the New York Times about oil shooting up 8% to $138 a barrel just because an investment bank said it would hit $150 [...]

The First Meal (KJ)

6. June 2008

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CM decided that we should eat dinner in the RV. He made cheeseburgers and fries and we brought it all into the dining area. The dinette was pretty roomy considering that I sat next to CM and the kids sat with each other. I’d have to say that the biggest problem was [...]

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On Friday, I found out my next assignment! We had to choose a list of ten places we wanted to go. I was really crushed when we got the list and Japan wasn’t on there. However, when life gives you lemons…..

Long story short — We’re moving to Korea!!! Someone told me “It’s just like Japan, only dirtier.” We’re all super excited. We plan to use Korea for a launching pad to Asia. We’d like to go to Japan, China, and Thailand!!

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So we eventually we had to leave Glacier National Park. A reader of our blog had suggested that we travel to Bozeman hot spring and Butte. I was pretty psyched about taking the advice of a complete stranger, and I was surprised that CM seemed to be going for it as well. About 200 miles later our RV broke down.
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We were at Glacier National Park for only 3 days, but so much happened. I just need to share a few more things and then I will move on to the calamity that struck us after we left.
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I had really been feeling like the trip was a bust. I had wanted to show the kids all of these different things and they really weren’t too interested. CM and I were feeling that we spent more time with our back on them (because we were driving) than we did when we had an apartment. Some days it seemed like the only time that we really talked to them was to tell them “Stop hitting” or “Share!” I really felt that the hike in Montana really changed that.
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Two words: Pure exhaustion. At the time of my last post, we were having terrible problems getting any kind of internet signal and we were headed to Glacier National Park in Montana. Well, when we got there what we thought was a 1.5 mile hike, turned out to be a 4.5 mile hike (thank you, CM).
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