Until Tomorrow, I'll Just Keep Moving On
I've mentioned this to a few people on my friendslist already, but I'm heading off for a two-week trip to Europe very shortly. Just about all of my time will be spent in Portugal, despite an itinerary which includes momentary stops in three other countries. :/
This will be the first time I've been overseas since 2003, when I hopped over the pond for my sister's wedding (with a side trip to Germany to visit axoaxonic). You all see me talk about travel often enough, but that little statistic is the simplest way to show how often my trips stay within North America. Even for someone with as much wanderlust as I have, it's not always easy to get the logistics together for a trip further afield.
(It's also not particularly easy right now, as my credit cards will tell you...)
Most, if not all, of this trip will be spent with family members, and along those lines, I'm hoping/planning to get some research done on my family history whilst I'm over there. I've always had an interest in genealogy in general and my own background in particular, but when your parents are immigrants, international travel quickly becomes a necessity to make any real headway into the past. Once I'm back, I'll start compiling what I have into a proper family tree, so any advice (especially on software) from someone with genealogical experience would be most appreciated.
If anyone would like me to track down an item (a postcard, a foreign-language edition of a book, a Region 2 DVD, something else entirely) or accomplish some particular task (not that I'm on The Amazing Race or anything ;)), let me know...quickly...and I'll do my best to hook you up.
This will be the first time I've been overseas since 2003, when I hopped over the pond for my sister's wedding (with a side trip to Germany to visit axoaxonic). You all see me talk about travel often enough, but that little statistic is the simplest way to show how often my trips stay within North America. Even for someone with as much wanderlust as I have, it's not always easy to get the logistics together for a trip further afield.
(It's also not particularly easy right now, as my credit cards will tell you...)
Most, if not all, of this trip will be spent with family members, and along those lines, I'm hoping/planning to get some research done on my family history whilst I'm over there. I've always had an interest in genealogy in general and my own background in particular, but when your parents are immigrants, international travel quickly becomes a necessity to make any real headway into the past. Once I'm back, I'll start compiling what I have into a proper family tree, so any advice (especially on software) from someone with genealogical experience would be most appreciated.
If anyone would like me to track down an item (a postcard, a foreign-language edition of a book, a Region 2 DVD, something else entirely) or accomplish some particular task (not that I'm on The Amazing Race or anything ;)), let me know...quickly...and I'll do my best to hook you up.