Thanks Scott – I appreciate your reply and will check out the section you suggested. I KNOW it would have been better to have read the book 1st, and would have preferred doing things in the more logical order, but I only just found this forum and already had the trip scheduled. . . . Escaping the insanity of the states, which your own countryman Bill Bryson once characterized as “working really really really really really hard . . . and then going shopping,” is one of the reasons I am intent to get a toehold in a calmer place now.
When I return I’ll buy the book! (If packages arrive for me when I’m gone, they are often returned because there is no one to intercept them.)
All the best,
Sheila
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