In 2008, I quit my corporate job, sold off everything I owned and moved overseas with my husband Drew. Since then we've traveled around the world, started our careers over as creative types and nurtured our love of sleeping in late. Oh and we had a baby. Cole, our almost 2 year old has been traveling since he was four months old and probably knows more Thai than me (not that he brags).
Skipping Morocco
I’ve canceled the last trip on my itinerary: Morocco. After my husband’s bout with Mumps, and after reading the comments informing me that, yes, Mumps is back, I started to research. It turns out if you do get Mumps, it can gestate for 15-18 days before you show any symptoms. During this period and for five days after, you are highly contagious. I drank from my husband’s cup before we knew. I could have it, spread it and not know.
So. There it is. Good for travel karma, a little disappointing for my travel agenda. The good news is that Morocco isn’t going anywhere, so I’ll make it there eventually.
So now what? Well, we leave Madrid this Saturday and I’m dutifully trying to catch up on the myriad of emails and obligations that I’ve pushed aside during the last few months. I have some exciting projects coming up, and I can’t wait to see Vermont during the foliage season.
I miss seeing family, especially my mother, and it will be nice to be back in New England for a month. After that we’re spending some time in NC, then heading south– way south, to Mexico and seeing what South America has to offer.
My husband’s face is practically back to normal. Now if I could just get him to stop watching bad movies, we’d be all set.
This week on the web:
Romain interviewed me for his blog
You can win a trip to Africa with this contest
I was meme’d with a little blog love- play along if you’d like