Wow, it's pretty much here!

Hey Gang!


While I acknowledge that I've been lazy on actually putting up posts in the last few weeks, we've really been enjoying our time in California wrapping up our "friends and family farewell tour." We've also bought like $50 worth of sunscreen...and the inevitable aloe vera, compliments of our translucent Seattle skin :)

So it's status update time - we will be leaving the country and starting our international journey in about 50 hours from right now.

Let that sink in... (it still hasn't fully sunk in for us yet).

Two days from now, we won't be in a native English speaking country until July. Andrea wisely decided to take French instead of Spanish in high school, as did I.  Add to that, we purchased a Spanish Rosetta Stone and so far it's made for an awesome drink coaster. Case in point, we gotta bone up on some Spanish.

We will be living out of a carry-on sized luggage and a 30L backpack for conceivably a year or more. Actually, we have been doing this for one month already, which has served as a nice test-drive.

We will soon start the most uncomfortable and awkward part of our whole trip... the beginning. But on a more positive note:

• We will begin adapting to new cultures/languages/cuisines/water-borne bacteria/etc. (Andrea: Eek! But also, yay!)
• We will experience new ways to do and look at life and the way that we live
• We will begin forming our next steps in life

I have probably mentioned this to most of you previously, but there is a certain degree of nervousness and uneasiness about this trip, which is to be expected.  Thankfully I've had just about a year to start the mental process.  The exciting part to me is to actually start the journey and dive in to the experiences.

We will cherish our last 50 hours in the U.S. spending quality time with great friends, enjoying creature comforts like a clothes dryer, ice-cubes, or raw meat/produce (without pharmaceutical assistance), and look forward to many months of creating memories.

We'll be in touch soon (or as our wifi connection will allow us)!


XOXO,


AT and the Dr.