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37 days left. Today it’s cameras, tomorrow it might be clothes. So far we have accomplished clothing, shoes, most of the electronics, diseases/medicine, reading, and school. But still we have to get baggage and many other vital necessities. We’re so close yet so far away. In 2 days it will be 5 weeks! Just thinking […]

We need a phalanx of inoculations. Kids get 7 or 8. Dana and I get something like 12. Seven times we bravely field trip to Mass General’s Travel Immunization and Infectious Diseases Department to get little doses of rabies, Japanese Encephalitis, Yellow Fever, Typhoid, and other unpronounceable critters shot into our bodies. The nurses and […]

We see this year as more than just a chance to explore and experience the world and its residents, but an amazingly unique opportunity to spend lots (maybe too much!) time with the kids. So what to do with all that time? Dana and I both like to coach — on the field and in […]

With better math thanks to Mr. Dintersmith who proved that people really do read this stuff: 42 days until we leave, 1,008 hours, 60,480 minutes, 3,628,000 seconds! Things are getting real. The trip used to be 1 year away, “such a long time!”, “no needing to worry!”, now it is just more than a month! […]

Next year is an amazing journey that we all can look forward to, but do we have enough time to get ready and go? That is one question we all don’t know about. Another challenge for us will be being together as a family for a whole year! Will we be able to handle it? […]