Looking for someone to move a few things

[Larkin]

Thank you for that thoughtful reply, DonJuane. I've noticed that PrimeraPlus is marketing a shipping service, so that may be a possibility for the boxes. (Perhaps for the furniture, too.) I've thought of selling the furniture and shipping the boxes. I'd lose money, but maybe not much more than the cost of getting the furniture to Pátzcuaro. I could get the boxes to the bus station by taxi. Or heck, for that matter, I could sell or give away everything, and just hop on the bus with the Sneaky Mexican Street Cat. Or find out what the baggage limit is and take only that much.

It amazes me to think that I arrived here less than two years ago with nothing more than a carry-on bag, and now I have over 4 boxes of belongings! Plus furniture, plus cat, plus geraniums!

But, you know, first you decide to buy yourself a coffee maker so you don't have to go out for coffee every morning. Then you decide that life would be so much better with a comfortable bed pillow or two. And of course you need a towel, and sheets for the bed. And a sharp knife. Then it gets colder at night, so you buy a blanket. And two years later . . . darn, you need a pickup to move it all!

When I first came here, I planned to keep possessions to the barest minimum so that I could pick up and travel without being weighed down. Two prepa students undermined that plan when they asked me if I could take a dying kitten they had found in the trash to the vet. After a few days of carrying her back and forth to the vet in the rusty bird cage they provided, I bought a cat carrier. A year later she is still living with me and clearly has plans to move wherever I do.