Help for Our Itinerary!

This weekend has been a crazy ride.  Recently we had begun to despair at finding a family who wanted to rent our home furnished and equipped - the missing vital ingredient to the viability of our trip.  Mark used that as an excuse to build a second story in the barn - idea being that we could move everything we owned up there, thereby becoming attractive to a more traditional tenant. Well now the barn loft is built, but the amazing news is that the perfect tenants appeared on our doorstep on Thursday at 3 and by Sunday at 11 we had a deal.  Suddenly my crazy dream, which is now officially just 2 months old, is really really real. We are going! The Pullens are going RTW.  We are excited, we are overwhelmed, and we are going to be very very busy. Because ready or not, we are leaving on our RTW trip in 4 (actually somewhat less than four) very short months.

Now we need an itinerary (where in the world should we go), and plane tickets (the variables are completely overwhelming), travel gear (we have to carry everything we need for 9 or 10 months on our backs), inoculations (ouch -  in more ways than one because they are ridiculously expensive), online classes (Literature, History and Math x 2),  a new roof (because tenants tend to frown on rain gushing thru the ceiling), homes for our pets and . . . . . more faith than we ever thought possible!  But what is weighing especially heavy on our hearts tonight is how much we will miss our amazing friends and family.  Because we are especially blessed.

So now as we sit here as a family working simultaneously on three computers, in our newly remodeled kitchen, with the heat on, along with most every light in the house, we feel like we are planning a trip to the moon.  But lucky for us, other families have made this voyage and we plan to follow in their serendipitously well blogged footsteps.

So now we are asking everyone we know, or even those we don't, to please weigh in.  Where in the world should we go?  Now is the time to let us know.  Because the world is our oyster!