Purging our worldly possessions…

After a long night of drinking and trying to give away remaining paperbacks, wine glasses and other assorted items, we drove to Philly Monday with another load of stuff. While moving out in stages has its advantages- mainly that we have time to go through our stuff- I am definitely sick and tired of packing [...]

Today is My Birthday: Four Weeks Until Our Expatriation

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I’m not sure which milestone is the bigger milestone. Today marks the 27th year of my life, of my past. Today also marks four weeks before our departure, before the start of our very exciting future. Only four weeks are left until we leave on the trip we’ve spent the last 5 years planning and [...]

One Month to Go!

Down to the final month before we officially depart DC. Phew! Before we can leave on our adventure we’re heading to see family. Our trek around the eastern US looks like this: A lot of places in not a lot of time. Probably heading out of the Philadelphia area around March 1st, spending a week [...]

New Year, New Countries

Less than 60 days before we move out and pack up. We got the annual new years candy from my grandma today (yay!), the card says “May you have a sweet 2009 no matter where you are.” Who knows what 2009 has in store for us, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see. [...]