We've been dreaming about how to spend Dwayne's eight-week sabbatical, probably before Wesley, aka Baby Omega, was born.
We had three requirements:
1) Go overseas,
2) before Kyla was in high school (high school credits are a lot less negotiable that middle school courses),
3) but after Wesley was old enough not to break any UNESCO sites...and not be too whiney.
Well, two out of three ain't bad.
After 23 years are Microsoft, Dwayne is taking a well deserved sabbatical. To exploit a copyright, we're taking a sabbatication!*
Dwayne has managed to turn his eight weeks into sixteen, so we are finalizing our plans of a four month Round the World adventure. As you can see from the map, we'll be circumnavigating the globe, while mostly staying in the Southern Hemisphere. Not including airports, we'll be visiting 4 continents and 12 countries. You can see pictures and more links by exploring the interactive map we've made.
We leave Seattle at the end of March and return mid-July. Most of the details are under control, even if differing luggage requirements for ten different airlines keep me awake at night. It's really important to me to travel with one international-sized carry-on and backpack per person. Packing (the house and our luggage), visas, and vaccinations are in my wheelhouse, finances are Dwayne's, and VacationKids does the really heavy lifting.
Details are coming to a head, as I figure out that Dwayne and Wes both need light-weight puffs and I learn to live without a curling iron. Just today we were at the only place in the Pacific Northwest that has the Yellow Fever vaccination--Costco in Redmond!
This is an exciting adventure for us, one that we have been looking forward to
for a long time. We ("we"?) will be
updating this blog as we travel, though until then, I will still add the usual family and book inanities. The kids will be posting on their own blogs while we are traveling to keep up academic appearances--while exploring the interesting world of complete sentences, acceptable grammar, and proper punctuation.
PS 😷 We are obviously concerned about the coronavirus outbreak. We started planning this adventure 6 months ago, and while our route skirts the most impacted areas, the situation is fluid and hard to predict months ahead of time. We are monitoring the situation and may have to make last minute adjustments as we go. Thank goodness for good travel insurance!
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*Thanks to Daniel and Talinn for a great name to steal.
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