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Apologies for the lack of updates! We’re into the second week of our trip and our third location. Everything has been amazing so far, we’ve taken tons of photos and need some downtime to go through them to get some up on the Internet. Stay tuned…

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. 🙂