When we decided to make this trip, we didn’t realize how much work we were going to have to do to get ready.
Usually, you can take a trip like this:
- buy some plane tickets
- book your accommodations
- pack your bags
If you have pets, you also have to arrange to board them.
Here, in no particular order, is a sampling of preparations we have to make for this trip:
- passports for the boys
- find a house sitter who will not kill our pets or burn the place down
- figure out how to get our mail abroad
- figure out how my clients can pay me while we’re gone
- buy some more luggage (not larger than 62 linear inches!)
- update our wills
- get a bank safety deposit box for our important documents
- get mini-storage for our junk that doesn’t belong in the house
- give away or sell a lot of other junk that we will never need again
- learn Spanish (thanks, Destinos!)
- get swimming lessons for the boys
- figure out how to get to the airport (12 weeks in the parking lot? I don’t think so!)
- try to put certain bills to sleep (cell phones, Netflix, auto insurance)
- get a Skype account and SkypeIn number so we can stay in touch while we’re gone
- start this blog!
That’s not a complete list by any means. All this is challenging, but fun too. That’s the whole idea. 
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