current status (3 July 2009):
In the Netherlands a year, but now I'm back in the US.
 
I have summarized as well as I can (see below), and now it's time to move on to my US life.

 
Total of 413 days as a resident of the Netherlands.
1826 days already back in the US.

Gentle Reader: The story of Downwind of Amsterdam has come to a close with the summary post "Bricks, Water, Peace". Thanks to all contributors and commentors. Be well.

The two most widely commented posts by far:
(1) One Night in Naarden Makes a Tired Man Mumble, (hallucinatory interview trip), and
(2) Rolling By, Beneath my Window.

Others often commented on for better or worse: Passing for Dutch, Keukenhof is Paradise, and the baffling Man, I don't 'Get' Zwarte Piet.

For earlier posts than the last one above:
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