Yikes

This is the state our apartment is in and it's stressing us out!

Almost there...

Finally 2 years after we said we would do it we’re one week away from our big trip!! 3 months in India and (hopefully) the remainder of a year in South America, where we’ll have to work our way around since we’ll probably run out of money in December. And then we resettle in San Francisco! I can’t wait, it’s an amazing city and I’ve always wanted to live there. Also, I miss California and I think it misses me too.

While I am so excited I’m also starting to feel a little overwhelmed by all that has to be done in this next week, like selling things, packing, canceling that and blah blah blah. It will never end but we’ll be gone whether or not our Boston lives are closed up. On top of that I’m sick and I sound like a man and I get spontaneous coughing attacks. I freaked Hernando out on the phone when I called him at work earlier today—he had no idea who I was but I was chattering away. And my landlord insistently told me that I sound absolutely awful in her amazing North Shore accent, which of course elicited a deep croaky laugh.

Oh yeah, I always forget to mention that we’re also going to England, and that should be where you here from us next. I am looking forward to it, though with reserve. Hernando will finally get to meet my grandparents and those other wierdos I’m related to but unfortunately it will be at a family funeral. My mom’s uncle David is finally no longer suffering from asbestos destroying his body.

On that sad note, thanks for reading my test pilot. Subscribe to our blog if you like pretty pictures because I’ll be posting them as I go. Hopefully it won’t be too impossible of a task since we’ll be relying on Indian internet cafes to get the job done and my camera’s technology is probably at least 6 light-years ahead of their capabilities.