Books, Books and More Books
Posted on June 5, 2008
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Posted by Daria
The one thing we brought the most of—more even than clothes or food—was books. We have three cabinets filled with books. One contains Sierra’s schoolbooks. The second is filled with travel books that pertain to this leg of the trip (Corrales to New Jersey). The third contains travel books on Europe, Leg Two of the trip, in case we want to read up on Europe as we get closer to our departure date. Each bookcase holds between twenty and thirty books, depending on thickness. Included here is my copy of Alaska by James Michener, a slog if there ever was one but an interesting slog.
Sierra also packed a small suitcase (or as she calls it, “green monster”) of books, another twenty or so. I have a satchel of books relating to Legs Two and Three of our trip—books to read or to use for schoolwork in Europe, books to replace Alaska when I’m finished with it and books that deal with the southern United States—stored in the back. Some of these, which I bought from the Friends of the Rio Rancho Public Library or got off their free cart, I will discard after reading. A lot of RV parks have small libraries or offer books to swap. I also packed a small backpack with a few other items for the European leg.
Last come the audiobooks, which we got for free through the Albuquerque Public Library. Sierra downloaded one novel, I downloaded a novel and a collection of New Yorker columns. We also downloaded French, Italian and German instructional audiobooks for Sierra, myself and Stan, respectively. Audiobooks are especially good to listen to when it’s the middle of the night and you don’t want to turn on the light. The only problem is, when you fall asleep, it can be hard to find your place again.
And, we left books related to Leg Four of our trip in Corrales, where we’ll pick them up when we visit briefly in March.
Crazy, isn’t it. We had intended to ship some of these to New Jersey, since we’ll be heading to Europe from there, but since we had room they came along for the ride. The only problem will be deciding which ones come to Europe with us. The Kangoo we rented for Europe can only hold so much.
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glad to see youre having a lot of fun
let em know if you get this rick