What should we take?

What would you bring? Ever wonder what you would take from your life if you had to up and split? For a year. Now make sure you and your family can take and carry their share, even if they happen to be 6 and 8 and may weigh less than most of the bags. Of course you will have socks, shoes, hats, that kind of stuff. What about vitamins, scissors, pocket knives, first aid kit, towels? You can see how the list grows to immense proportions. Now fit it all into 8 bags that you can all carry up stairs, through subways, on buses, anywhere. It is such an intense exercise. Although if you succeed it feels good to know you can leave it all behind. Except for that really nice perfume and a few comics.

Our winter months have come through, and it looks like most of the time will be spent house sitting and fixing up a house, I'm thinking carpentry, on the French speaking island of Corsica near the town of Ajaccio, help me with the pronunciation Frenchy! This is the birthplace of Napoleon and his childhood home is now a museum. These months may see us in Portugal as well with a possible 2 or 3 weeks in Morocco. We will round out our last 30 days here filled with lots of family and friend celebrations as we prepare to say goodbye to a huge network of people here. Hopefully a few of you will find the need to seek us out on this adventure and pay us a visit. A welcome treat for sure!