We\u2019re two weeks away from departure and feeling really good about our progress. Here\u2019s what we\u2019ve done so far:<\/p>\n
\u2022Booked tickets from SFO to London<\/p>\n
\u2022Mailed off income taxes (come on big money!)<\/p>\n
\u2022Purchased 3-country Eurail passes<\/p>\n
\u2022Booked accommodations for Brussels, Bruge, Amsterdam, Paris, Provence, Dordogne, and San Sebastian<\/p>\n
\u2022Purchased luggage and clothes<\/p>\n
\u2022Bought Katie\u2019s noise-canceling headphones (Brent already has them)<\/p>\n
\u2022Bought new camera (see \u201cGear\u201d)<\/p>\n
\u2022Sold both cars<\/p>\n
\u2022Read many books in the name of research<\/p>\n
\u2022Gave landlord one-month\u2019s notice<\/p>\n
\u2022Went to final doctor check-ups<\/p>\n
\u2022Put all finances online and established automatic bill pay<\/p>\n
\u2022Purchased Macbook (still learning how to use it)<\/p>\n
\u2022Downloaded Skype and practiced using it with family members (so fun!)<\/p>\n
\u2022Set up website<\/p>\n
\u2022Got GPS system for international navigation<\/p>\n
\u2022Brushed up on foreign languages<\/p>\n
We\u2019re feeling hugely relieved to have been so productive but, there is still a lot to do in the next week:<\/p>\n
\u2022Cancel gym memberships, magazines, wine clubs<\/p>\n
\u2022Cancel cable (gets its own line because we so relish the thought of it)<\/p>\n
\u2022Notify post office of change of address<\/p>\n
\u2022Notify credit cards and banks of travel abroad plans<\/p>\n
\u2022Pack up apartment and sell or give away furniture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We\u2019re two weeks away from departure and feeling really good about our progress. Here\u2019s what we\u2019ve done so far:
\n\u2022Booked tickets from SFO to London
\n\u2022Mailed off income taxes (come on big money!)
\n\u2022Purchased 3-country Eurail passes
\n\u2022Booked accommodations for Brussels, Bruge, Amsterdam, Paris, Provence, Dordogne, and San Sebastian
\n\u2022Purchased luggage and clothes
\n\u2022Bought Katie\u2019s noise-canceling headphones (Brent already has them)
\n\u2022Bought new camera (see \u201cGear\u201d)
\n\u2022Sold both cars
\n\u2022Read many books in the name of research
\n\u2022Gave landlord one-month\u2019s notice
\n\u2022Went to final doctor check-ups
\n\u2022Put all finances online and established automatic bill pay
\n\u2022Purchased Macbook (still learning how to use it)
\n\u2022Downloaded Skype and practiced using it with family members (so fun!)
\n\u2022Set …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wearereallydoingit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}