On my most recent flight home I traveled with Daughter who asked for gum about 36 times and spilled her trail mix more than once because she was trying to only fish out the M&Ms. Son played with the window so much, his finger got stuck in it… and then screamed bloody murder. Also along […]
Expat Unpacked: Life on the Road
The Word No One Uses to Describe Living Abroad
When our people back in New Jersey ask us about moving abroad they use lots of words: brave, exciting, complicated, scary, adventure, different, very different. But they never use this word: simple. Sure there could be complicated things about living overseas as a whole: navigating a foreign country, learning new customs, trying to get out of a […]
But Doesn’t Everyone Miss Rest Stops?
A reader recently asked me what I missed “from back home that seemed like – maybe – a weird thing to miss for someone else.” I thought about this question, since, to say it is “weird” would assume that other things were not weird, that other things were normal or understandable. I got that. Surely when we move abroad we expect […]