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• August 23, 2018

  Communication and Goodbyes

  I wasn’t prepared for how hard saying goodbye would be for all of us. The girls said it would have been better to see everyone on the same day to say goodbye, that way they would only have one day of crying (very sweet). My mom, dad and Neve made it easier by reminding me…

• August 11, 2018

  One week to go

  The house is ready. Our tenants move in tomorrow and we’re officially homeless until next June. We depart from Toronto in a week, so for the next 7 nights we are couch surfing. Friends of ours are keeping our cats while we’re away, so our first stay will be with them. We’re hoping for a…

• July 29, 2018

  25 Days Until Departure!!

  “Part of the fun is planning and preparation.” I read this on a blog post early in the planning process (one of the million I’ve poured over), and I would have agreed wholeheartedly if you’d asked me up to a month ago. Leisurely surfing the internet researching places we want to experience, searching for flights,…

• June 5, 2018

  Indian Visa…WTH!!

  We’ll be spending about a month in India after we finish in Nepal. We’ve decided to travel overland to Darjeeling, India from Katmandu. There are a couple of reasons for this decision. To fly to Darjeeling, we’d have to fly to New Delhi first and then take another flight to Darjeeling. After Darjeeling we would…

• May 23, 2018

  Planning, Preparing, Packing

  So, the Type A planning part of my brain has been working for the last 5 years trying to think of every possible detail. What have I learned? It is impossible to think of everything. What I do know is that I’m prepared for the moment I realize I have forgotten something monumental. Some of…