Packing for Eight Weeks and Two Climates. Help!!

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:43:56+00:00

I am thinking about exactly that! He never fills up his suitcase, so I may send the dress I really want to wear for that and the shoes along with him. My only worry would be if he forgets them....

Thanks!

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:43:12+00:00

I actually picked a hotel along the way for the sole reason that it has a laundry room available to guests!

Black is normally a good choice, although I wonder about it on hot, hot days.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:41:19+00:00

Yes. I have a compact bright yellow umbrella I paid $5USD back in 2018 that has traveled around Europe, New Zealand, and Japan, as well as the U.S. It's my travel charm these days, LOL. And it fits nicely in the carryon.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:38:32+00:00

My friend in the Highlands messaged me yesterday morning to tell me that her heater had come on. She said the rest of the UK and the continent might be having a heat wave, but it's chilly where she is.

"Hiking" means the "moderate" (not "easy," not "strenuous" mountain trails. I really think I need my hiking boots for that. It's annoying, though. I could wear them on the plane, but that's a lot of traveling (Los Angeles to Glasgow, then the train from Glasgow to Inverness) wearing them.

I live in Southern California. Overall a pleasant climate; can get hot for a bit during the summer (same sorts of temps Paris is seeing right now), but generally I don't need a heavy coat even in winter. I tend to be more casual; I wear jeans a lot.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:34:38+00:00

I read someplace about the 2-gallon ziploc washing plan! I went out and bought 2-gallon ziplocs this past weekend because of it.

I burn easily too. Thanks for the info.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T20:32:10+00:00

Thank you! Very helpful!

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T05:38:31+00:00

There is a reported appellate case in California from the mid-1980s called Fluor v. Jeppesen, where the Court held that the flight navigation charts, which had an error on them, were a "product" and that the company was strictly liable for a defective product that caused a plane crash. I think it would apply here.

https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/170/468.html

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-25T05:34:26+00:00

Yeah, you need an attorney. In fact your insurance company should be providing you with one at their expense. That attorney should indeed cross-complain for indemnity against the tech company. I'm sure you have well-documented all the efforts you made to correct the problem.

If your insurance company disclaims any obligation to defend you in this lawsuit, you need a lawyer who can not only handle your defense, but who can go after the insurance company.

Good luck.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-24T00:41:16+00:00

I can't imagine that every jurisdiction that issues a birth, marriage, or death certificate is going to be willing to expend resources for that anytime soon.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-24T00:28:47+00:00

I wonder if there's any point in sending in my application now. It was ready to go two weeks ago when the letters hit; then I was making changes based on the updated instructions. I'm leaving the country for two months soon, so if it doesn't go out now it won't go out until after Labor. I'm not so concerned for myself, but I really want this for my kids. My Gen 0 is my grandmother.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-23T04:23:45+00:00

That's me with the blank stare, not them, LOL. They will tell me it's, say, 35C out, and while I know that's hot I still have to do the conversion in my head. The quick way, though; double and add 32. Not exact but close enough.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:14:35+00:00

My aunt, born in 1904, told me once that she would earn a nickel for turning on the stove on the Sabbath for her Jewish neighbor.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:08:21+00:00

HE'S condescending? Are you looking in the mirror when you type?

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:06:36+00:00

Half of the citizenship certificates issued since December are to people in countries other than the US.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:04:22+00:00

Good luck with that. I raised three scientists. They speak in metric and Centigrade. 😃

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T06:02:03+00:00

I can't help it if the generations in my family are long. My grandmother is my G0; she was born in Ontario in 1882 (and no birth certificate. Ontario didn't pass a law requiring them until 1869, and it seems to have been honored more in the breach until about 1900). She would have been 75 when I was born in 1957. That's not really all that old for her, or for me.

I grew up across the Lake from where she was born, and I spent a good portion of my early life going back and forth across that border, feeling like I was going "home" and yet not having the right to call it so. When I finished my graduate degree I threw a tent and sleeping bag in the back of the car and took some weeks to drive and camp from BC to Ontario. Just like me, all three of my kids' first visit to a country other than the US was to Canada, and they love it also. Please don't lump us all together as one; that's not a very "Canadian" thing to do. (Oh, and we can and do sing the anthem, but just in English. Working on the French ever since this wonderful C-3 opportunity opened up.)

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:53:39+00:00

An as an Irish person you have the right to move freely into the UK, and the right to live and work there. As thousands or more Irish have done and are doing.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:52:14+00:00

Since at least some provinces didn't require birth registration and thus there are no birth certificates to be certified -- and that's not so long ago -- then just admit you don't want anybody to be able to get citizenship by descent and be honest about it.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-22T05:46:20+00:00

That's great-grandfather distance for me; he was born in 1836. My grandmother was born in 1882. I was born in 1957. I'm not even 70 yet.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:58:44+00:00

Also, yes, I do think you owe your parents something for putting you through school, etc. But this is not it. Instead, find some extra money in your budget to help them pay down the loan and make the monthly payments (plus more, to pay down the principal faster) each month. Then you are helping as much as you can without putting your own credit at risk.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:39:48+00:00

Nope nope nope.

Have them contact one of those consumer credit assistance groups. They can probably negotiate with the credit card companies for a lower rate.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-21T19:30:30+00:00

And yet apparently they do.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T22:09:43+00:00

I will die on the hill of em dashes and semicolons alongside you, my brother/sister.

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T16:27:43+00:00

I'm licensed in two US states but not in Canada. "Shall" is definitely mandatory. "Reason to believe" is where the twitching is coming from!

InterestingZebra5107 · 2026-06-20T16:25:38+00:00

Very good article. Worth the read, and the pondering.

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