Chris, Melle, Homer and Roxy on Tour

Ideas and decisions There have been a lot of things to consider when making the decision to go travelling for three months. Some time back when we first mooted the idea of a long trip away we had many questions that we didn't have immediate answers to: Roxy 💝 Whereabouts do we want to go and is this feasible to us? How will we finance our trip?  What should I do about work?   What about our family and friends that we leave behind?   How long should we and can we go away for?   What about the dog?  😆 It has taken us a long time and many discussions with each other, our family members, friends, colleagues and a lot of research, to come to this point where we have a clear idea of where we're going, how long for, how we'll pay for it and how we'll keep in touch with everyone. Planning and preparing Chris has long had a dream about going skiing for a whole season and had ideas of re-training as a ski instructor to enable this, but where would we live...

 So, after over two years of thinking about it and planning, here we are less than two weeks away from setting off for a three month adventure in the Alps.  There's still loads to do and given that Homer has recently developed a number of rather worrying extra features, including the inability to start the engine, there's also loads to worry about as well.  But I'm sure we'll get those things sorted, after all how embarrassing would it be to say "actually we've decided it's too much effort and so we're not going to bother"?  I'm not sure either my or Melle's work would welcome us asking for our jobs back - actually Melle's workplace probably would welcome her back but my job has now been filled so that's not possible even if I did want to do it.  Which I don't.   Why, you might ask, do we want to give up our security and go off to the Alps with no thought about what we'll do after that, what's it all about?  Well for me ...