New Years Day 2006

The sun is setting behind Pleasant Mt. in West Rockport Maine. I am so darned lucky to be here with my clever grandaughter Alice who is setting us all up with blog sites today. Since I fly out of Portland, PWM, for Sosua, Dominican Republic POP, it seems like the right time to get this blog off the ground ;)

We never travel light when going to the DR because we have to pack in everything that we will need for the next 4 months. Many items that make life easier are available, but they are outdated and exhorbident. So we take in paper towels, toilet paper, peanut butter, Febreeze, salad dressing mixes, a #15 frozen turkey, cranberry sauce, rhubarb jam; things our neighbors need us to smuggle in, like a headphone set with USB terminal, 5 rolls of 1/8" masking tape, french vanilla coffee creamer, Little Debbie brownies. yikes, the list goes on. There are 4 duffle bags weighing #68 each, in the back of the Subaru Forester. Our limit is still #70 since we got our tickets in August, but from here on the limit will be #50.

We are hoping to beat the snowstorm heading in on Tuesday. Hopefully the next post will be from Sosua where we will have successfully smuggled that damned turkey in past the guys looking for just that sort of thing to exhort a few extra US dollars out of us.