Updated Route PlanGThursday, October 30th, 2008 Not much has changed on our proposed route but costs continue to fall as the US dollar gains on foreign currencies and we re-evalulate what we think we can live on. Here is our plan as of today. ...
REI Extravaganza!GSunday, October 26th, 2008 What a wonderful, wonderful day! After sleeping in, waking up to beautiful sunny weather (the first sunny day in awhile…), and puttering around in the kitchen making hash browns and biscuits for breakfast, Tyler and I set off to pick up more cardbo...
Bicycle BoxesGWednesday, October 22nd, 2008 I picked up our bicycle boxes from the airport today; they are huge! Five months should be plenty of time to test tearing the bikes down/putting them back together :) Nothing much else to report, we're still slowly packing things up in prepara...
Selling EverythingGSunday, October 12th, 2008 We are spending the weekend boxing up what few belongings we want to keep and giving, selling or throwing away everything else. Unsurprisingly it is very cathartic. We are almost done sorting through the 200lbs of books we collectively own. I tho...
SimplifyingGSunday, October 12th, 2008 Our trip around the world is fast approaching. While I feel very excited about everything now, I was pretty stressed out about it a couple of days ago. One moment I was baking in the kitchen, taking care of my plants, and cuddling with the kittie...
Buying TicketsGThursday, October 9th, 2008 This week we found a renter for the house. With the final big step for leaving out of the way it was time to order the plane tickets. We pulled up a few websites to look at prices and managed to find an incredibly cheap fare for $440 apiece from Mi...
