You Know You’re PCSing When…

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You know you’re *PCSing when you get demoted to the backseat because the front is filled with more important crap.

packed carYou know you’re PCSing when you have to cook via flashlight because your wife sold all the lights…literally.

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You know you’re PCSing when “Royal Hawaiian Movers” show up to take your possessions from Germany to San Francisco and you stand on the street thinking, “Oh crap…we are moving to San Francisco…aren’t we?!”

Royal Hawaiian

You know you’re PCSing when you pray that said movers can spell the final destination of all your belongings better than they can spell multiple variations of the word “clothes”.

clothes

You know you’re PCSing when all you really want to do is hide from the world…in the bathroom.

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*PCS (Permanent Change of Station) – When a military family deconstructs its entire life and reconstructs it in a new (temporary) location…until they are told to PCS again.

The Dreaded Question

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I have a really hard time answering “the dreaded question”: What is/has been your favorite place to travel to?

We have had so many experiences and have so many favorite memories from these past three years, that we think reducing them to just one location (or even one sentence!) would be a disservice to all the fantastic places in this world!

To address this predicament, I have compiled a list of “Wall Superlatives”. My intent was to keep it short and sweet, but as we set adrift on memory bliss (with some German beers keeping us afloat), the list became quite long!

So…scroll and click at your pleasure…and beware when you pose “the dreaded question”!

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Germany’s 17th State

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Officially, Germany has 16 individual states. The island of Mallorca is its unofficial 17th state and official holiday hotspot!! If Germans aren’t heading north to the sea…they are in Mallorca. So, we figured we should do the same!

I’m not kidding. Germans are crazy about Mallorca. It’s really ridiculous. I guess I can see why:

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We told ourselves that we would actually “vacation” on this trip, instead of “travel” (there IS a difference), but curiosity killed the cat…and the Walls. It’s probably a good thing that we couldn’t sit still: I was starting to drown my stress in wild hibiscus mojitos.

One day, we decided to drive to Sa Calobra, which is only about 19 miles as the crow flies from where we were staying. However, those 19 miles took over an hour and a half! We had about 45 switchbacks AND had to wait while cars drove in reverse to make enough room for the coach busses! Craziness!

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And all that work…just to share 100 meters of stony beach with 273 other tourists! It was still pretty cool though. I would recommend Torrent de Pareis to anyone visiting Mallorca.

Torrent de Pareis

Torrent de Pareis

I think we successfully squeezed in a few hours of “vacationing”. A+ for effort, at least!

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