Life on the edge

I’m still waiting…

My first choice for a companion to the US declined my free ticket + cash offer because the scheduling just couldn’t be worked out between us.

My second choice is posing other challenges.  She has dual US/French citizenship, but her US passport is expired and it could be difficult (no guarantees, of course!) to expedite it from here during Covid.  And, she is not available to travel before October 1, about 10 days past my visa expiration date.  I’m corresponding with the Prefecture here in France to extend my visa, but shocker, nothing yet.  Beyond that, my landlady is staying put in my apartment in Begur, and the other apartment that I thought might be available there is not (thanks again to Covid – the kids are out of school and the owner of that apartment will be using it to entertain them until school starts, eventually).

Although I could potentially put the dogs in the hold of a plane (don’t want to) or fly alone on United out of Paris (also don’t want to), in this instance, I feel like I really need a companion.  I usually prefer to do things myself.  I don’t like to depend on anyone else or feel “beholding,” but driving on my own to Charles DeGaulle Airport in Paris to return my leased car, checking two large suitcases, and carrying both dogs onto the plane seems overwhelming.  I do have physical limitations (strength and age).  I really don’t know what to do at this point.  So, I’m just staying put.  Jeez!  Something’s gotta give, right?

I feel like I sound like a broken record.  I realize that mine are first world problems.  I’m not complaining, at least not too loudly.