What to (not) take 
Thursday September 4, 2008



            Letter to SAS, the least expensive carrier we could find with  $1,000 RT tickets to Paris through Copenhagen.


Dear SAS,


            You limited us to 50 pounds for each of our 4 checked bags plus one piece of 26 pound carry on luggage and a purse. We didn't make it, I know. At the last minute Bob found that our bikes were too big to mail so we found ourselves with 9 instead of 7 pieces of luggage to get to the airport, transfer onto the TGV train in Paris and then to our Montpellier home.

            Why so much? It is hard to reduce a 1100 square foot home to even 7 pieces of luggage.We packed for four seasons, as well as for school, for biking and for cross country skiing, hoping that Marie Laure will repeat her offer to take a trip with us to the Cevannes. All of our clothes take half a closet, but eight pairs of shoes add a lot of bulk. 

            Five  of our nine pieces of luggage were Costco new with clips and rollers to make us porter and cart independent. Also new:


            A Travel Pro rolling office to roll computers and books to school without back pain.


            A Kindle book with internet access to new reading material 24 hours a day, 7 days a week

            MBT tennis shoes with their rounded soles. We will be walking  3 to 12 miles a day. No hot spots or sore arches. Only sore muscles as promised by the advertising. I am thrilled with this purchase, expensive as it was, since it is likely I will walk 4 miles a day to school. The sales person owns three pairs. The store in Seattle cannot keep them in stock and based on the first few uses, I can see why. (Based on futher use, they are for sale.)

 

 

 

 

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