Enjoy your gum and keep the streets clean

This is one of several popular street signs on the "grand rue" in Besancon.  This sign invites chewing gum enthusiast to "stick" their gum on this pad, instead of throwing it on the ground. The interesting thing is that these pads are changed almost everyday.  What an innovative way to keep the city clean.

Keep on chewing!!

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MOVE: 6 Suitcases weighing 130 lbs and 194 Boxes

That's what 20 years collectively looked like. Shocking! Surprising. If you were to boil down your life and "stuff" into boxes how much would it be.  What do you think is necessary? A burden? Just stuff that you collected over the years?

All these thoughts run through my mind as I was looking around an empty apartment and realizing that everything important we owned was boiled down to just 2,300 lbs which was packed into 194 boxes. Our prized possessions weighing 130 lbs traveled with us as we made our move to France from Chicago.
This blog chronicles our move to France and attempts to capture interesting experiences along the way.

Bienvenue...