Hello!

Welcome to our sabbatical blog. The point of this entry is to work out how to drive this thing, but it seems appropriate to start ahead of time with a shriek of panic at the thought of our sabbatical beginning, not a year from now, or three months, but a bare 50 days! So much to do...

We (Kerry, Richard, Aidan and Declan) leave on December 15 for New York, then London, then Paris, then India... eventually we will be spending 3 months in SE Asia before returning to Seattle via China and Japan. At this point we have flights booked only as far as Hong Kong.

Every time I look at the huge To Do list on my desk, Kerry says "All we need are passports and toothbrushes." This is true.