And So We Begin … Again

Wednesday, 19 November 2014
En Route to Houston, Texas
Temps: Hi 70F (21C) / Lo 53F (12C)

Four months.  That’s how long it’s been since we completed our summer overseas travels.  As regular readers of this blog, you might find it hard to believe that we’ve been home that long — after all, until a few weeks ago, you were still reading the catch-up posts for that trip!  And here I am starting to write about a new adventure — one that will last four months, give or take a few days!

Our summer travels kept us in the northern hemisphere.  We started at a fairly low latitude with our annual trip to Turkey (family visit); then moved a bit higher to Helsinki, Finland; and capped things off at the North Pole — about as far north as you can go without leaving this planet ;-).

(If you haven’t read those stories, and would like to do so, check out the May-July 2014 archives in the sidebar.)

Our winter travel adventures will be taking us in the opposite direction — to the southern hemisphere.  It will be summer down there.  But that doesn’t mean we will have summer-like temperatures for the duration of our trip.  No sirreeeee!  Some of the places we will be visiting are so far south that we expect to break out our polar gear again to stay warm ;-)

Enough teasing … here’s the big reveal of our plans … in picture form.

Tomorrow is officially the first day of our trip … see you then!

(As many of you know, exploring takes priority over blogging in my book.  I will post teasers here, and on G+ and Facebook, too — as internet permits.  And hopefully there will be some ‘story posts’ as well — if time permits.)