Out of Office Alert

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If anyone cares to notice, I will be noticeably absent for most of January and February. Why? Traveling of course. I posted a few details of my upcoming plans in From the Editor: What’s Around the Corner at Matador Trips.

I just spent the evening making about 20 trips back and forth from my flat on the first floor (second floor for you North Americans) to my van, loading it up with things to sell tomorrow morning at the Camberwell Sunday market. The past several weekends have been spent mostly building up S.A.M., our van.

We’ve been selling a lot of our possessions, mostly to newly arrived migrants from Germany, India, New Zealand. Today we got rid of our fridge (yes, most flats do not come with one) so we’re living out of our little campervan fridge for the next week. We have no couches so I’m writing this on the floor with my laptop perched on top of a Tupperware box.

Our TV and DVD player left us shortly after Christmas, same with our stereo. All the wall hangings are off with patchy stucco marking where things used to be. Someone came to look at our bed. Our prize possession. You really can’t invest enough in something that you spend around a third of your life in. And now we’ll spend the next year and a half searching for that perfect sleep.

We got to take a small break between Christmas and New Years. We drove 2000 kms round trip to Sydney to camp on Cockatoo Island for a night to watch 12 minutes of fireworks. It was brilliant. Worth every tick of the odometer.

It’s bedtime now, quite possibly the last night in my bed. The alarm is set for 5 AM tomorrow. Have to be at the market bright and early to set up for the rabid bargain hunters to pounce once it opens. I wish you all a Happy 2010 and hope you have a great start to the new decade!

*Photo: Victor Bezrukov