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In conclusion

No one returns from a trip or a stay abroad as we went: our perception of ourselves and the world changes. Some rough edges of our personalities have long been filed down by our lifestyle, our culture, our confrontation with others. We believe knowing your strengths and weaknesses and it has over the years, built a life that can exploit the former and avoid - as much as possible - that we jump to the second face . We carefully placed on our card geography interior, our highways, our peaks to climb, our wetlands, our deadlocks and our safe havens: we are assured we can move forward in life-clad certainties ...

If the holidays make a foray into other landscapes, other cultures and other habits, they are too short for us to confront our limits. Instead, it aims to ensure that we do forget that we extirpent constraints of everyday life to the dream, the sun, the discoveries of the exotic (and our photos show how much our eyes is selective: how many sunsets over the sea and how many open sewers? Yet they are two sides of the same reality). Like it or not, the holidays make us tourists who slip on the surface of the world.

But stay longer (even if only 2 months) changes everything. During the first 2-3 weeks, we lived in tourists and everything was like a postcard from Florida: nice house with swimming pool, palm trees, with their Everglades alligators, sandy beaches and supermarket where everything is oversized to us. Milk and orange juice can be bought per gallon (3.7 liters), meat packaging by at least 2 T-bones of 400 grams each, beer in packs of 12 and live without a car is totally impossible . Then gradually, the postcard and pale colors beneath the veneer of paradise, the reality is emerging ... Moisture months while the flow toilets is undersized and if one uses more than 2 coupons paper it is blocked, large cockroaches roam the night in the kitchen and nothing better to omit the list races if you do not want to redo 8 km to go to the store nearest you.

That our habits and modes of operation all messed up! We had fun at first, then angry, we criticize, we reject. It's like in love stories ... The foibles that we find in touching another become unbearable defects, has anyone seen that what brought us together and now you see this sets us apart. We are no longer very sure to love ...

The secret is not to stop there, but understand that this is precisely what bothers us (un-range) which makes us evolve and must drop his beautiful geographical map well-ordered because the landscape has changed. We enter into the unknown, our benchmarks are outdated, we must draw a new map of reality without switching from one extreme to another, taking a step back and keeping a sense of humor ( and there are days it's hard!).

We went through these steps over a short period, with the certainty that we would go home, but this trip has changed my view of immigrants: I realized how difficult it is to change language, culture, lifestyle, eating habits and often occupation, often for the rest of his days. I raise my hat to those who have passed this obstacle course with flying colors, especially our friends and Alina Tavi, Dante and Pina, Yosch and Sarah, Kristel and Andrea, Santina, Carmen, Abdoulaye, and William Hussein (sorry to those I forget)!

America, like us, is both complex, touching, full of contradictions, funny, annoying, good boy ... We love it and hate it in turn with emotion as we are witnessing the opening day of Barack Obama, we see that there exists in this country than on outward signs of wealth, it is confirmed that we can draw from scratch and its successful tour, which has its hands in the poop to the elbow or an immediate complicity that arises before the antics of our dogs Dod Beach. ..

Bye bye and thank you, America!

PS A big thank you to all who have encouraged and complimented for this blog! Your reactions, your laughter, your indignation were my fuel and I had a great time to share with you day after day that we live ... Did you like this blog? It will soon be a book with photos: if you want a copy (which will cost about thirty dollars), you can order it by mail to the following address:

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New adventures

Our stay ends in Florida. Saturday night, the bags are packed, the last laundry done, the windshield of the car rutile ... And on Sunday we take Interstate 75 toward Miami. The flight is scheduled for 18 am 30 but already an hour late. I take this opportunity to see Jill to thank her again in person (it is employed in the service of luggage that had so kindly décrotté Joy and reassured when he arrived from Zurich, where they had forgotten to load it into the plane - see the beginning of the blog) ... Finally, we board the Airbus 340 Miami-Zurich, after making sure that Joy is on board. But an hour later, the pilot announced the failure of the electrical system of the landing gear, everybody back down and resumed his luggage. At 22 h 30, all passengers are accommodated in a hotel near the airport. All ... except us! Despite dozens of phones, you can not find a room in a hotel "pet-friendly" (which accepts pets)! Will we have to bivouac in the airport with two huge suitcases, 2 hand luggage, 2 laptops and the huge cage of Joy?


Well angels exist and ours is faithful : It's Jill! At half past midnight, it is we propose to take Joy home for the night ...

The cage is stored in the office of Jill and Joy share, standing proudly on the passenger seat of the pickup truck Jill. Pouvor we will spend the night (at least what remains of it) to the hotel, but will take the dog to 11 30 pm the next day we fly to 16 h 30.

Florida is however determined to not let us go like this ... At 15 h 30, we announced that our flight is unfortunately already seen the complete cancellation of the previous day. We must return for check-in at 19 hours! If you want news on the Miami airport and its immediate surroundings, you will not find better guides than us: we know all the terminals, the locations of elevators and toilets, shops, restaurants, newsstands The color of the seats and floor tiles, the peak hours, the few square meters of grass outside the airport, parking in the open, the names of all the car rental companies including shuttles pass by airport and the wording in English and English from the announcement by loudspeaker that runs every 5 minutes ("parking spaces at the airport are designed specifically for loading and unloading of luggage. For security reasons, any vehicle without a driver will be immediately evacuated ")... It will not die stupid.
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And Joy was quickly spotted. It " Hi Joy "here," Hello cutie, we'll miss you! "(hello darling, we'll miss you!) thereby, a true star who takes out his big game of seduction, the tail wagging frantically licking and distributing power !

At 19 h, finally, the check-in. For some time, drug traffickers have a new strategy: hide drugs in the cage and toys of animals, or even make them swallow pellets of cocaine. Joy is therefore subject to tight control: A security employee empty the cage and make sure it contains no double wall, the cushion kneads, kneads the length raccoon and duck plush, shakes the ball, then dons gloves and feeling the dog's nose to tip of tail (I thought for a moment that he would give him a rectal examination!). She wriggles with delight in what she believes to be affectionate tickling (it's not because he loves you, panty !)... It takes him for boarding, then it's our turn to go to the tail control Security: small bottles of cleanser and cream in a plastic bag, toothbrush and drugs in another, remove belt and shoes, put in a tank lighter, mobile phone, camera, jackets and coats, unpack the computer, go the metal detector, and everything is put back my store again in the hand luggage: a job of work! Alas, I did not seem to carry a head and no substance illlégale handsome man in uniform does not decide to feel me, me ... it's not fair!

To compensate for our too short night and all this waiting, the station manager, with whom, force to stay in the lobby of the airport we got on, we slip a conspiratorial air that has put us in business class, but shhh ... Here we are pampered with champagne, a sublime menu a very good Bordeaux before we settled comfortably for the night: seat that extends up to near a bed, pillow and plush blanket, menu choices for breakfast, a luxury very nice and very appreciated!

In Zurich, the alarm is brutal: we first seeking Joy and employee we slip through the cage door. Parts of the cage are broken net, a wheel was torn off, the door spring jumped and there are pieces of plastic cup full cage ... We immediately verify that Joy was not injured or did not cut, but it goes well. It is "only" very frightened. How is it possible that shocks to the point of breaking a solid cage (endorsed by IATA, the highest standards for animal transport) have occurred when the cage included everywhere labels specifying "LIVE ANIMALS, PLEASE HANDLE WITH CARE! ". The only plausible explanation is that the cage was not secured, it was brutally dragged to the back-off and forward to the landing to go and smash against the walls. Poor Titoune! And say that we chose to SWISS Joy is transported under the best conditions ...