Travel JournalJune 15, 2006 5:52 pm
We’re leaving for about 3 months, driving from the southwest to the northeast and Nova Scotia. We have piles of our stuff packed by the door. It’s too hot (103 degrees) to pack the trunk now so we’ll wait till the sun goes down. My husband and I have always had different ideas about space, packing, and the "proper" amount of things to take. We used to fight … and then leave in a huff, smoke coming out of the exhaust and our ears. I think some of it was just plain old anxiety about leaving. I’m not saying we’re enlightened now … but we have systems that usually work and wiggly compassion for each other’s needs and idiosyncrasies.
