Hurry up and wait!

Got Banana?

We're now just 4 days from our return to the United States or, as some of us expats affectionately refer to it, "the old country." After months spending much of our time considering every possible detail associated with making a smooth transition from la vida loca we've experienced these past three years, you'd think we'd be busy with final preparations for Friday's departure. Not so! In fact, it's starting to feel like a case of "hurry up and wait."

Mind you, there will be plenty more to do soon enough. Wednesday, Leonard, Sprocket "the Wonder Dog" and I end our stint as house sitters for our friends at Boomers Offshore in Playa Hermosa, Guanacaste (NW Costa Rica on the Pacific Ocean) and make the drive back to our apartment in Atenas where we'll do laundry and clean out the refrigerator, mostly to get rid of the food that's been rotting during this, our last fling at Hermosa.

Thursday, we'll finish packing, run a few last-minute errands then hand off our 2005 Toyota RAV4 for safekeeping until its new owners arrive in Atenas in a few months.

Friday, the three of us head to Juan Santamaria International Airport in San Jose to board a United Airlines flight to Houston, Texas for the first in a series of travels that will take us from Texas to South Dakota back to Texas then to Arkansas, all so we can arrange for drivers licenses, vehicle plates, and, incidentally, pick up our tow vehicle and RV.

Just thinking about it makes me tired. How nice it is to know that I don't need to be anywhere just this minute. Plenty more to do and write about later. Right now it's time for a little poolside siesta.