Well it has been a really long time! So time to catch up and resume regular postings.

In a nutshell, what has transpired since the last post:

• we moved with the cats to Marina Del Rey. It was a long flight with Air France as the flight was ultimately cancelled after waiting many hours at the terminal in Charles de Gaulle airport for ' technical problems'. We were put up for the night in a hotel and next day tried again, this time we made it over. The cats held themselves beautiifully so now we know they can travel well
• when we arrived on a Sunday end of February we picked up our rental car and headed for the Marina. Keys were waiting and we moved straight on board of our new home
• there were many things to be done to get settled:
• open a bank account
• apply for social security cards at the Social Security office
• buy a car and a motorcycle. I found a good used Volvo C70 (2009) and an almost-new (2017) BMW C650 Sport maxi-scooter
  
  
  
  
• try to get our French driver's licenses converted into California licenses. Unfrotunately the United States do not recognize any 'foreign' licenses and boy what a journey that turned out to be (today 4.5 months later I finally passed my last of the exams: theory, car driving and motorcycle driving tests and the new license is in the mail)
• replace a bunch of furniture
• get to know the boat
• buy bicycles

Here are some random photos that give an impression of where we have landed:

See you!