And now, ladies and gentlemen, what you've all been waiting for!
We just started our much anticipated blog after weeks of procrastination and "Yeah, we're starting a blog... maybe." Unfortunately, there isn't too much to write about yet, except for all the preparation. The panniers we ordered came today!
Starting tomorrow we move out of our apartment to spend this last week with our respective families. The basement room has become a base camp of sorts for us to mentally (and financially!) prepare for our ascent to what is hopefully one of the many peaks of our lives. Moving is always a little sad, but this period of time is characterized by excitement more than anything else.
The excitement has been steadily increasing for the past five months as our departure neared, but now, with only nine days to go, it's growing by leaps and bounds. We leave Bloomingon a week from Saturday, so things are feeling a little more real than when we first formulated this plan, bought the tickets to New Zealand, started emailing farmers, and every other step we've gone through on our way here. We have no solid job offers for the time immediately following our arrival in Auckland, so we'll probably start our bike tour right off the bat and delay the farming for a little while.
We're hoping to update this about once a week, so make sure to check back. And feel free to leave comments. This is how we're planning to stay in touch with all our friends in Bloomington and elsewhere. Staying in touch is important.
Happy New Year! We hope it's full of adventure for everybody.
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Wow! we are all blown away here by your trip...and imagining all the hobbits you are going to see down in NZ. thanks for the blog, your grateful family on E. Wylie St.
ReplyDeleteYou have both worked really hard to make this happen and we are all proud of you. I'm also very excited for you...enjoy the fresh air, beautiful scenery, and friendly Kiwis.
ReplyDeleteLast night, the Air New Zealand website reassuringly indicated your flight from Fiji to Auckland departed only an hour late, so you must be there by now, recovering from a looooooong trip! I was going to suggest that you relax by watching water swirl as it goes down the drain the opposite direction from the way it goes in the Northern hemisphere, but the Wikipedia article on the Coriolis effect says it's a misconception that it does that. Oh well. Our thoughts are with you! --Don
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