I think we're good to go

Yeehaw.

So the skies have cleared, the planes are flying, and it's looking good for our vacation. I suppose something could still go wonky, but that's always a possibility. It's part of the adventure. It's why I wear *adventure pants* when I'm traveling.

They've got lots of pockets.

So yeah, everything is pretty much in place. I'm cycling the music on my I-pod, we have all the chargers and all our clothes selected, and all the adapters to charge everything all over Europe, we hope. We'll take lots of pictures, and I've sworn on my honor as a man that the camera won't get stolen this time, so we can share those when we get back.

My favorite part of the traveling is the journal. Jess had started this, but it's become a nice tradition for us every time we go somewhere interesting. We buy a couple of notebooks, small, with spiral backs and a rubber band to keep it shut, and we take notes about what we did every day. Those things are a blast to look back on, fantastic documentation, and are infinitely helpful when writing blog posts later. I highly recommend them. It's wonderful to back to some of our older ones to see things we've done, emotions we had, and problems we overcame. Consider it a personal travelog, except we're not getting paid to do it. Well, yet, at least. Perhaps someday they will become required reading as 'the artist as a young man'. It's a universe of infinite possibilities out there.

We won't be bringing a laptop, we're traveling super-light, so we'll be mostly incommunicado while we're away. There may be random blog posts or e-mail checking, though, so if we must be reached, you'll be able to figure out how, I should hope.

See you all on the other side.

-N