Pre-departure

Hmm, extended traveling.  Quit our jobs - check.  What else needs to happen?

Ah, a good excuse for a nice new pair of walking/hiking shoes.  Check.

Of course, sell the house, how could we forget after tiptoeing around the showings for the past months?  (Thanks Jim and Dawn.)  Check.

See you later 1638, it was nice knowing you.  Have you lost weight?  No?  Maybe it's the favourable lighting of the first sunny day in 8 months...

...aaaand even after 3 carloads taken to charity, a whole bunch of furniture sold, and lending out the piano and BBQ, we're barely able to squeeze all of our chattels into a pretty big storage locker.  But we did it.