before today

There was a lot of packing, then a lot of driving, and very little sleep. Then there was re-packing, delegating of luggage transport (thanks, Sarah!) and more driving.

Now that I'm caught up on sleep and reasonably confident of my car's configuration I'll be able to fill in the "progress so far" bits. Not that you missed a terrible lot of excitement, but...

Cookie is the luckiest dog in the world

In Takoma Park MD I got to meet Auntie V and Wendy's new dog, Cookie. She's a total cuddle bear, gentle and sweet. I got to go to a two step and West Coast swing dance night with V and Wendy. And I got to have some truly excellent Salvadorean pupusas. Yum!

Before that, in NYC I got to see cousin Steph's pad on the Lower East Side, finally, after 10 years; and to hang with her and Sarah (and to foist a godawfully heavy piece of luggage on Sarah, who I promise to repay with interest for the most important 3 cubic feet of space ever recovered). I just didn't manage to get a picture of them in all my exhaustion.

Aaand before that I got to drop in on Mary and Juan in Portsmouth RI, which was super nice and a great way to catch my breath after my belated bat outta hell escape from Magnolia Ave. And I got to have a beautiful twilight drive out of RI, along country roads under an indigo sky dipped in rust, with just a fingernail clipping of a moon high in the sky.

So not a bad start all told.