This is a combination of things people have asked us, things we learned, and things we think might be helpful to others who might want to do such a tour in the future. If you have other questions, just let me know and we'll answer!

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Day 2, the day our trip officially really began! Well, sort of. It was really mostly still a travel day, but it involved a variety of forms of public transport, and actually was one of the days we were fearing the most, because it had so many moving parts, some of which we couldn't really nail down until the night before, with Martin and Mary's ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my last pre-adventure post, I worked until lunch on Friday, so it didn't even really feel like anything was happening until I got home and our house was full of giant boxes and no dogs.

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