Maybe I should back up and give a little bit of history about the reason behind this trip that my friend Paula described as "Around the World in 200 Days".
A couple of years ago Jim, my better half, proposed an idea to take an extended trip of several months and rent out our house during that time.
I'll admit that I was somewhat reluctant- not so much about the travel part as much as the renting out ( and cleaning out) the house. I'm not sure if he thought that it would be a good excuse to weed out a lot of stuff, and children, or that he liked the idea of defraying some of the cost of the trip with some rental income. To me, it seemed like a HUGE JOB. But I wrote the idea down in my journal and gave it some thought. I knew that if it was important to him that I should seriously entertain the concept.
Time passed and we mulled over possible itineraries. We were much too ambitious, as is so often the case, but eventually narrowed it down to include parts of Southeast Asia that we had not been to before, eventually wending our way back to Europe where we hoped to meet our son and daughter in law in Croatia. Originally we imagined that we would invite all of our sons to join us at some point in our travels, but they all had different travel plans.
In the next installment, I will tell a bit more about how our plans took shape.
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