Well, here we are one day away from the first leg of our 5-plus month travel odyssey! While I always feel like there is tons left to do (what about all the research I never got to do on all these places? Weren’t we going to try to learn more Turkish?), in reality there’s not a ton of truly necessary things we have to do tomorrow.

Here’s what’s left:

• call credit cards to let them know about trip
• drop off rent
• put internet/phone on hold
• put directv on hold
• put netflix on hold
• put at&t on hold
• unplug everything
• add more water to plants (testing an auto-waterer)
• take one more turkish lesson
• final packing (add last items to main carry-ons, and pack small bags)

Well, now that i’ve listed it out it sort of seems like a lot, but we have all day all it should be all good. Better get to it!

This is a new blog, for a new chapter. In two days time, I will be unemployed and we will begin preparing in earnest for our little career sabbatical. Where are we headed, you ask? Well, here’s the broad strokes plan:

Turkey – 1 month

NYC/Ecuador – 2 weeks (Jose goes to Ecuador, while I hang at home)

Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia – 10 weeks

Austin – 1 week (visiting family)

Ecuador – 1.5 weeks (visiting family)

Costa Rica – 3+ weeks

Would love to spend more time in Costa Rica, but by that point i think we will be running out of money and it will be time to come home and get re-employed. 🙂